The vast majority of the times people should use painkillers are for temporary injuries that will stop hurting in time. Helping people through this is good. Li

The vast majority of the times people should use painkillers are for temporary injuries that will stop hurting in time. Helping people through this is good. Likewise, for people who have chronic pain, if we have the capacity to help ease their pain, we should do that. The question of what to do with the people who are enabled to avoid the work required to eliminate the source of their pain is a hard one, but I don't think that threatening people with starvation and homelessness is something we should aspire towards.