Unhappily, the idiotic 'war on drugs' has had yet another bad side-effect in severely damaging sane pain control. A study done in 1960(!) concluded that pain meds were seriously under-used and caused the study PI to start a program to get hospitals and doctors on the roll to fix it. A more recent study (2006), concluded that we're in Exactly the same bad situation on pain control that we were then, due mostly to the fact that any doctor who Really treats pain aggressively is likely to be prosecuted by the feds And banned from practice if they can get it past the local medical board.
So your more skittish docs are probably scared for good reason, sadly. Or, more cynically, they may be under pressure from the pharmaceutical (sp?) companies to switch people over to newer (thus still in patent and far more $$$) drugs to get ~rewarded with samples and other ~goodies.
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So your more skittish docs are probably scared for good reason, sadly. Or, more cynically, they may be under pressure from the pharmaceutical (sp?) companies to switch people over to newer (thus still in patent and far more $$$) drugs to get ~rewarded with samples and other ~goodies.