*edit: Also, while your post was primarily about this pill and addiction surrounding it, I can assure you my father wasn't like "Jerry Garcia.(huge addiction, obese, and diabetic, etc)." In fact, he was in his mid-twenties, and an all-state wrestler and football player in high school, and very athletic after. Sometimes, it has nothing to do with your health, but the seizures which can come from withdraw and an inadequate and unequipped healthcare system.

To be frank, I find your post to be very insensitive and offensive to those who have been through situations like this.