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.
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.