Morphine to the rescue?

Interesting cultural differences. I'm going to have to side with Deutschland on this one. The US is WAY overmedicated.

Halfway down the Danube: Morphine to the rescue?: "On the other side, my conception is that in the US there is an over-treatment of pain to the point where every single little itch has to be eliminated. Topically numbing the gums before the anasthesia shot is administered? How ridiculous is that? We call that shooting at sparrows with cannons."