As someone who’s suffered with chronic back pain for more than 30 years i can tell you that addiction is not always the final result of opioid use, like the national narrative would like us to believe.
I was prescribed 1500mg/day, and many times i used more if the pain dictated, for 13 years until i decided to quit cold turkey after i retired. during that time i worked 40+ hrs a week at a physically demanding job with no adverse effects. i have also known several other working people in similar circumstance as me, who also used opioids regularly and never became addicted.
I have also known people who willfully abused opioids to get high and those types of people are likely to become addicted.
People who suffer constant pain and have a legitimate need for these drugs, but now find it much harder to get them, are victims of this campaign to paint everybody who use opioids as addicts.