I was on steroids for my condition. Steroids are really hard on the body. My first two attempts to quit landed me back on additional medication. One involved an ER visit and a week in bed. Doctors never told me I needed to taper off, nor provided other support for helping me get off the steroids. Trying to quit was creating potentially life threatening crises for me. Doctors were not proactively helpful to me in escaping this trap that kept me on the steroids because trying to quit was threatening to kill me.
An internet friend told me I needed to taper off, that going cold turkey was too hard on the body. A different internet friend told me to take guaifenesin, the active ingredient in Mucinex. Over time, internet friends helped me sort out that generics were tolerated better by me because they lack the blue dye and the time release stuff. They are also cheaper. One internet friend hand-packed pills for me as a Christmas gift to make sure I could get this drug with zero additives and in a lower dose than you can purchase OTC.
This not only helped me get off the steroids, it helped me get off of multiple other prescription drugs over a period of several years. Addicts are not people who lack self discipline. They are people who need practical help to get free of the prison of their drugs. Our current approach frequently helps to actively make it harder or impossible for them to do that.
Most doctors completely suck at helping patients effectively get off drugs. They are in the business of prescribing drugs and surgeries and can be shockingly oblivious to relatively cheap, simple solutions that can provide a patient with stepped down intervention so trying to quit isn't akin to hurling yourself off a cliff.
And then we blame the addict for failing to get to the other side on their own. We have to stop this.