re: Do doctors not prescribe pain pills anymore?

Pain management is the answer. I can't imagine there arent places in LA that have clinics.

I am almost there myself. Big stigma here in Houston as well. This is a pill mill capital. My back fricking hurts all the time. Off and on. Just layed up. One or two days at a time. I hoard scrips. I have a dental scrip from early this year that I am still milking. GP is the Toradol king. Then just motrin.

I don't want to be "Oxy guy" and I don't want to be back surgery and steroid injection guy. I want to slowly lose weight and improve with therapy and then YES GOD FORBID a Vicodin now and again when it is bad.

DEA out of one side of its mouth clamps down on Norco etc, but then will be rolling out Zohydro shortly. Which is up to a FORTY MG Norco tablet!!! Just with the tylenol taken out. BUT it will be a top tier prescription commanding a top tier price for something that has been around for 40 years.