You're pushing a narrative created by opioid manufacturers: "These meds aren't addictive if used to treat pain".

That's only true (if it is true) if they're used short term. People in this thread aren't talking about acute pain, they're talking about chronic (long term) pain.

It's likely that opioids are addictive if used long term to treat long term pain.

Here's what actual doctors say: https://www.rcoa.ac.uk/faculty-of-pain-medicine/opioids-awar...

EDIT: FFS, your own link says this:

> “Physiological dependence is the normal response to regular dosages of many medications, whether opioids or others. It also happens with beta blockers for high blood pressure,” said Dr. Wilson Compton, deputy director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Your link says that opioids create physical addiction. The physical addiction to opioids causes all the factors of the newer definition of adddictive: tolerance, drug seeking, preoccupation, and continuing to take it even though you know it's harmful.