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Opium-based pain killers are the most reliable way to ease pain without causing organ damage in the near term. Drugs like Advil and Tylenol cause organ damage
by rand_r 9y ago
Opium-based pain killers are the most reliable way to ease pain without causing organ damage in the near term.
Drugs like Advil and Tylenol cause organ damage even at small doses and are thus unusable for extreme pain.
Opiates are used the world over for pain relief, not just for cancer patients. If we had a way to ease pain with something non-addictive that didn’t cause immediate organ damage that would be great.
- MichaelMoser123 9y agoBut only in the US there is overprescription and a crisis. Why?
- zoul 9y agoThe key difference is the easy availability in the US. It seems to me that the GPs are eager to prescribe you some opiates, whereas here in the Czech Republic they would have to go through quite a lot red tape to do that. Which, given the potential harm, seems like a good idea. (Even though we do have some problems with opiates not being used often enough. But compared to the US situation that’s a great problem to have.)