Do doctors not prescribe pain pills anymore?

I mean the good ones. I've gone to the doctor three times in the last month due to shoulder pain and tingling in my fingers. The first time I was given prescription Ibuproferin (800 mg) and muscle relaxers. That didn't work at all. I was refered to a men's health doctor and he recommended the same as the first. He then recommends me to an orthopedist and he diagnoses me with a pinched nerve in my neck. Well I havent been able to sleep for over a month and I've been in a lot of pain. The orthopedist gives me a steroid shot in the neck and offers me some muscle relaxers which arent helping and physical therapy. I'm still in a lot of pain? Why am I not getting the good stuff?