there's no way around it -- many good medicines have side effects, one of those being obsessive compulsions to misuse the medicine in certain types of patients.

the AMA has many times gotten bad medicine taken off the market, no matter how hard the pushers lobby for it. remember palladone? what about rx heroin?

addicts are addicts before they ever pick up the first drug. it's when that happens that the addiction actively manifests itself, and active addiction is the only way to differentiate between the two. like most side effects, it affects a mniority of patients. in the meantime, millions of non-addicts are able to function without debilitating pain.