When I went into boot camp I was 17 and my wisdom teeth hadn't come in yet. The dentist decided to cut out all 4 at the same time. He was going to use, I kid you not, hypnosis instead of anesthesia. Even tho I was a boot and he was an officer I made it REAL clear this was not going to happen. I was assigned to a different dentist in the clinic that not only used plenty of anesthesia during the procedure, he gave me a huge bottle of straight codeine for the recovery with the instructions to take "as needed".
The next day I had to take a First Aid test. I was so wacked out on the codeine I couldn't understand what I was supposed to do. I screwed up to the point that the instructor threw me out of the class. I spent the remainder of that day confined to barracks. Since passing the test was a requirement, I was going to be washed out and sent home. The next day the Petty Officer that was doing the discharge paperwork asked me just how I managed to screw up so badly on a simple First Aid test, I said maybe it was the pain meds and showed him the pill bottle.
"How many of these did you take?" I told him I couldn't remember but the bottle was more than 1/2 empty. He asked if I had taken any today and I said 2. One before PT and one after chow. He gave me the same First Aid test right then and I aced it. Needless to say, I wasn't washed out but they did take the codeine away from me.
