Pain doctors have to deal with belligerent, desperate people every day. NOB, and possibly here, they face the loss of their medical license if they prescribe too many opiates. It's big business, and lucrative for crooked doctors. It could be that if the doctor in question is rude, it may be because he has just had enough of addicts demanding more and more. Drug addicts will shift the blame for their condition to whoever is closest. It is never the addicts fault. Honest people who are simply in pain and need relief get caught up in it. Having said all that, how can someone pretend not to know that opiate addiction is a worldwide problem and keep demanding the "medicine" anyway?