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while opioids are clearly awful when abused, they are at least a controlled substance and a bit expensive. There are MANY more people who manage pain with alcoh
by spydum 7y ago
while opioids are clearly awful when abused, they are at least a controlled substance and a bit expensive. There are MANY more people who manage pain with alcohol due to it's price point and availability.. I'm very interested to see the effects there. a quick search turns up some papers, but nothing recent or with any significant data..
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4700545/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4700545/
- GordonS 7y agoI recall seeing a study recently looking at using GHB for chronic pain management (which has similar effects to alcohol, but without the hangover). IIRC, it did work somewhat, but of course the participants felt "drunk". I suffer from chronic pain caused by small fiber neuropathy in my arms and legs, and can add a single data point: alcohol does help a bit - but the way it does so is more by "distraction", whereas opioids really seem to reduce the pain. It's also completely impractical if you want to drive, work, look after children etc (normal life, basically). But I can certainly see why people would use alcohol if they were unable to obtain prescription medicines that helped them.