All along I-40 there are pain management clinics that seem to be nothing more than prescription drug dealers.
Are there an extreme number of people in Ohio without self-control or something?
“Are there an extreme number of people in Ohio without self-control or something?”
Well, we do know that humans in Ohio do not feel pain worse the humans in Texas.
Ohio has a far higher use of opioids than Texas and I’m guessing back pain in Ohio is just as bad as it is in Texas.
However, I have never heard a doctor give their patient that diagnosis of “Small Town Ohio Back Pain.”
Therefore, it is something about the cultures of Ohio, West Virginia, North Dakota, and Massachusetts that make pain more significant than the back pain in Wisconsin, California and Colorado.
This is the same area written about in the book “Hillbilly Elegy.” Many people in this area migrated from some of the bleakest parts of Kentucky.