Yes there are appropriate uses of oxy. Therapeutic RX of opioids for acute, urgent, and chronic care leads to dx of OUD in: 0.6% of the time. Yes, I said 0.6%.
My health care system discriminates, misdiagnosis, stigmatizes, shames, & med abandons me bc someone else misuses drugs
Torturous 18yrs in bed: undermed. & non-functional (wrong opioid); overmed. and non-functional (wrong opioid), and torturously refused pain mgt, leading to hosp as I became suicidal when med abandoned and was denied all pain tx. This is not addiction, weakness, or moral failing.
In '11, I found the doc who saved my life, Ellen Thompson. She RX'd the right opioid at the right dose (for me). I stabilized, and began to find life again, with gratitude. Between low dose oxy, 20 weekly NBI's, and a system that believed rather than destroyed me? I improved.