I have chronic pain due to a heriditary, incurable condition. Right now one of my ankles is in an elastic wrap to ease the irritation from arthritis. In our hom

I have chronic pain due to a heriditary, incurable condition. Right now one of my ankles is in an elastic wrap to ease the irritation from arthritis. In our home, we did have a bottle somewhere of Tylenol 3, aka codeine. Regular acetominophen was usually what I got to help with an issue. As I grew into adulthood, I knew the pains I experienced were directly related to my condition, and it was my desire to not really 'cloak' the pain, but avoid it in the first place. Preventive if you will. It helps, but it's clear to me that I wanted to be healthy, and if I have to occasionally take something, so be it. Naproxen sodium has worked quite well of late. The point of all this rambling is that I simply don't want the hassle of becoming addicted to pain pills. Or sleeping pills. Or nasal spray when it's allergy season. I've lived with pain so long for my life that I'm kind of used to it, and I do say so as a point of pride. It's the body I was born with and it's the one I'll have to use for this gig, take care of it. I don't fault people for wanting pain treatment. I think the way the system was set up with pills flooding the US was incredibly destructive, and highly indicative of the dangers of for-profit medicine as a system. Toss in the DEA's drug laws and it just turns patients into criminals and that benefits only a very limited group. When I eventually started seeing commercials on TV for a treatment for opiod induced constipation all I could think about was Trainspotting and that we have a real, genuine problem on our hands in the US.