Actually the correct term is not addicting, but dependent.....that is the term that the pain specialists call it when the body becomes dependent on a medication & the body goes through withdrawal when the med is stopped. The term addicting is only used when a person needs more & more of a medication in order to get what ever feel they are wanting to get from it other than the pain relief it's purpose is for.

I am NOT BP, but have migraines that would never stop. I tried every possible migraine med from maxsalt to imitrex & either they didn't work at all or they really messed with my heart rate. Took all the low lever pain meds with NO help. Even had a neck fusion because they thought that was the cause of the migraines that would never stop. Turned out the only relief I ever got was when I would go into the ER for a demoral shot & the relief lasted only as long as the narcotic was working in my body. They started me on the durgesic fentynal pain patch when I had my neck fusion, but the dose was too low to work....once we upped the dose to a very high level, I haven't felt the pain of a migraine since 2003. I have been on the same dose all that time, so am not addicted to the med, but I am physically dependent on it as I would definitely go through withdrawal if I were to stop it. My pain specialist has been very good about prescribing it after we built up a trust. He said that usually narcotics aren't the solution for migraines, but he has several patients that he has found it works, so for them, he will prescribe them. I went through nerve block treatments & the whole works.....nothing worked but the pain patches. I don't have to take the meds & it gives a continual dose for 72 hours. Sometimes I still get the migraine symptoms without the pain which is really strange......but it was the pain that kept me in bed for years without being able to function. In a dark, quiet, no smell room. It sure wasn't a quality life.....it's so wonderful to be able to function now.....can't imagine ever going back to having the migraines. We tried to lower the dose a few years ago & the migraine pain was right there under the lower dose, waiting to come through.....ugh.....oh well, at least I have a life now.....there are limitations but at least I feel I can now function & enjoy life