Sad or funny? "Tolerant San Francisco fed up with dirty, smelly streets"

[Gman]

Whatever the disposition is to becoming addicted to opioids, I don't have it (thankfully). I take them for pain. I don't have the convenience of being able to take NSAIDs since they may interfere with my spinal fusion. I have "control issues" and hate the way they make me feel, so I only take them when I have to. Times that I "have to" are things like being able to sleep at night. If you're in so much pain trying to sleep that you can't, not only are you not sleeping, but you're not healing. If I'm awake, I pretty much just deal with it. I've had pain most of my life and don't expect to not have any. My pain management doc told me I wasn't really taking hardly anything compared to most of his patients. A monthly prescription lasts me several months. He didn't have to worry about me....but I was still required to have Narcan on-hand due to the "epidemic".

I also rarely drank alcohol for the same reason, but my current medications don't allow it. Which reminds me, I quit smoking in my early 20s. I decided one day that it was 'no longer fun' and just quit.

...but my wife reminds me regularly that I'm not like "most people".