[_fat_santa]

I remember going to the dentist a number of times a few years back and they always prescribed me something crazy like percs, vicodin, oxy, etc. I never actually got any of the scripts filled because by then I had read too may stories about the opioid crisis and was determined to never venture down that road. I did notice once the opioid crisis really hit the mainstream press, my dentist stopped prescribing those strong painkillers and prescribed prescription grade tylenol or ibuprofen instead. Never filled those prescriptions either because the prescription grade stuff was the same as taking more of the regular OTC medicine.

[nradov]

Back in 2007 an oral surgeon gave me an opioid painkiller prescription after a routine tooth extraction. I never filled it but in retrospect it seems crazy how they were handing out those scripts like nothing.