Opioids took me from suicide level pain to just tolerable pain over 6 months after I had a half golf ball sized hole scooped out of the base of my tongue due to

Opioids took me from suicide level pain to just tolerable pain over 6 months after I had a half golf ball sized hole scooped out of the base of my tongue due to cancer. It was a bad week when I stopped but it's doable. Opioids have a place.