My personal experience backs up your post. I had a very severe injury and my orthopedic doctor pumped me to the gills on opioids while i was in traction and through two follow up surgeries. However, before the pain was completely gone, he tapered me off over my strenuous objections. He was very frank that the reason was addiction avoidance, which killed any ideas I might have had about doctor shopping.
Good doctor. And I don’t think he’s in the minority.
