I’ve been told before that opiates aren’t useful for chronic pain, but I always assumed that was due to the risk of addiction. I had major surgery recently and was on morphine in the hospital and Vicodin after leaving. I hardly experienced any pain from the surgical site while on the medications, but my chronic shoulder pain seemed to be unaffected. Can anyone explain why this would be the case?
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Issues with narcotics for chronic pain. The need for tolerance breaks is not well established. The rate of abuse/addiction is high.
It is processed by the liver, and can damage it over time.
They were over-prescribed, and it lead to an epidemic of addiction and deaths.
Used responsibly, they can help manage pain. It’s important to keep checking liver health every 3 months or so tho.
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