Opioids don’t cure...they simply mask the pain.
Then you start to get into the long-term use, which is a long discussion item. If you are totally dependent on them...you likely develop a secondary problem now...liver damage. Toss in the fact that long-term usage means increased tolerance, and more of a prescription to reach pain-relief, and you reach a point where you really can’t stop the drug, and have to take more to achieve the goal of pain-relief.
You are very unfamiliar with gastro problems.
BTW, I have not taken one in years.
I have a bottle of them in my cupboard.
I’m not throwing them away. It is good medicine when the pain hits.
The world can respond to the lowest common denominator as it always does and you can chime right in.
Be sure to look both ways before getting run over.
Yes, and long-term opioid dependence was tolerated by the clinical and regulatory community as the natural progression of pain management. Not so any more...