[poinq]

Opioid use HAS NO PURPOSE IN HANDLING CHRONIC PAIN. Unless you are near the end of life, opioids used for long term pain is just producing addicts. Yes it may work, sort of. But its not working by getting rid of pain. It works by getting rid of your ability to care about pain. If you use opioids for chronic pain you are a junkie. Maybe you are a high functioning junkie, but a junkie none the less and you will have an early end.

[slimer]

Your statement about being a junkie if you take opioids is both ignorant and misguided. Perhaps you have been fortunate enough not to have suffered REAL CHRONIC PAIN! I mean when every second of every day you are in total agony and the pain completely consumes you. It effects everything you do and makes doing normal everyday activities a major challange.

Things like walking, bending, sitting,climbing steps, riding in a car, lifting, carrying things, just to name a few of the physical debilities. Not to mention the long term psychological effects that can drain you of the will to live. Using the term "junkie" to label every person that takes opioids and truly suffers from chronic pain is shallow and misinformed.