mr. quinones.i'm 73 years old and have to use opioids for pain management for an arthritis that can be disabling. because of abuse of opioids, i had to sign a contract with a practitioner, he's the only prescriber and i take the prescribed amount and no more, my insurance company monitors. people like me who need them are under strict rules and why aren't abusers monitored, too? . i would say that, yes, i would say that we've changed a lot. i mean, i remember writing dreamland, when i was writing dreamland, none of that was true, right? it was fairly wide open. you could get refills for almost anything, and sometimes pushed on you. i had my appendix out a year or so before i was involved in this, and they give me two vicodin a day in the hospital and cut me loose a third day and they gave me an enormous bottle of vicodin, take as needed. and i didn't know what vicodin was at this point and i don't like to take bills so i took two and the rest remained in the back of my medicine cabinet. strict regu