Dax Shepard

I filed it as a mental note.

I'm like, oh, that's weird.

That was a drug that I was fine.

I didn't take them all.

Still did my shit.

So that was a very bad data point.

And then over the years, I had more injuries.

And then...

What really set it off to the races was, yeah, I had back-to-back hand-shoulder surgery and this bullish, arrogant view that this was a drug that didn't seem to affect me in the way that cocaine or alcohol did and that this was kind of a manageable thing.

And then, yeah, I was off to the races.

But, I mean, I want to take 90% of the responsibility for it.

I also was...

open to the idea that there was still something I could do that wasn't the other things I had admitted I couldn't do.

I ask a question.

Yeah.

Would it be fair for me to say, like, I don't prescribe, but I observe and I see patients with pain all day.

It makes me angry that this is what we're doing to people who have a history of addiction.

So my question for you is, do you feel like it's inappropriate for me to say, like, maybe we can recommend different pain medications for people with a history of addiction than opioids?

Do I have a leg to stand on?

It's tricky because I'll give you an example.