They give you some good stuff in the hospital - morphine, demerol, and some other stuff you probably would have a hard time getting via prescription.
Having never spent any real time in hospital, I haven’t had the pleasure of any of these supposedly wonderful legal drugs. The closest I’ve come is codeine, prescribed after I had bottom wisdom teeth surgically removed.
And man I thought that stuff was great. I couldn’t feel a thing! I was raving about the stuff. What a painkiller!
But my enthusiasm was to be shortlived. I soon discovered it wasn’t the codeine at all, but a caper that had gotten lodged in the hole where my tooth was and blocked the wound from the outside world.