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Panel Recommends Ban on 2 Popular Painkillers

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It's hard for me to believe that there are that many people who need pain killers for long term pain and that it is most likely an addiction from short term usage.

I had to take pain killers for 3 and 1/2 mnths after a severe motorcycle wreck. I wound up addicted to them but they were needed at the time.
 
People living with pain on a daily basis will dispute that. As will physicians.

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I don't question that some people do live with pain, I question the amount of people who say they are living with pain.

Withdrawals can cause pain.

You're thinking about acute pain in MHO. Chronic pain goes along with many diseases and there's nothing to take usually but opiods. MS, fibromyalgia, cancer, bulging discs, pinched nerves are just a few things that can cause chronic pain, and the older we get we pick up this stuff.

People can and do get addicted, you're right, I agree.

All those things make sense, I'm not sure that the amount of people who live with pain are actually in pain because of a chronic illness.

The pain may come from withdrawals.

I've experienced a person with "chronic pain" not having their meds, it was a near psychological breakdown.
 
Oh I totally agree. Getting off the damn things was pure hell.

I believe it, I have an addictive personality, so in most situations I refuse to take pain medication. Unless we are talking about only Tylenol, aspirin etc.

I quit drinking, drugs et all partially for my wife and partially because I knew I would get addicted quickly.
 
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