We can’t cure migraines. We can’t cure cancer. We can’t cure back pain. We can’t cure a lot of stuff that causes recurring pain in people, for whom pain isn’t a warning but a useless life impediment.
The body is not a perfect machine, and we don’t understand or know how to fix most of the problems with it.
Off-topic: the topic is a toothache, which is usually curable.
There are medical guidelines for chronic pain management, and leaping to dangerous, addictive substances aren’t that.
There’s pain catastrophizing to watch out for.
There are multi-disciplinary approaches recommended before turning to prescriptions.
Despite not suffering more pain than other nationalities, Americans had been taking disproportionately more pain pills than the rest of the world.
There is something wrong with the mentality that treats medicine as an exercise of pain satisfaction rather than pain management & imagines that patients need to live pain-free despite the dangers.
During the opioid crisis, articles like this had belabored that point repeatedly & explained where the industry went wrong.
You don’t suffer chronic pain, do you?
We can’t cure migraines. We can’t cure cancer. We can’t cure back pain. We can’t cure a lot of stuff that causes recurring pain in people, for whom pain isn’t a warning but a useless life impediment.
The body is not a perfect machine, and we don’t understand or know how to fix most of the problems with it.
Off-topic: the topic is a toothache, which is usually curable.
There are medical guidelines for chronic pain management, and leaping to dangerous, addictive substances aren’t that. There’s pain catastrophizing to watch out for. There are multi-disciplinary approaches recommended before turning to prescriptions.
Despite not suffering more pain than other nationalities, Americans had been taking disproportionately more pain pills than the rest of the world. There is something wrong with the mentality that treats medicine as an exercise of pain satisfaction rather than pain management & imagines that patients need to live pain-free despite the dangers.
During the opioid crisis, articles like this had belabored that point repeatedly & explained where the industry went wrong.