I am happy to notice that doctors prescribe much less pain medications now then they did even five years ago. Some nurses say that new approach makes some patients to suffer unnecessary. Well, lets compare pain medications with antibiotics. Antibiotics save tens of thousands lives but at the same time some patients die due to adverse reaction to antibiotics such as anaphylactic shock. Should we stop using antibiotics just because one out of million patients may die due to anaphylactic shock? Of course not. A lot of Americans became addicted to pain medications, hundreds of thousands already died of overdose of pain medications. Should 60 thousands Americans die every year d/t overdose just because few patients have "ligimite" pain and suffer unnecessary d/t new strict prescription guideline? My answer is "No".