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Unpopular opinion: opioids are the gold standard for pain management, and denying them from people in pain is simply cruel.

• gchamonlive 1y ago
  Yes, but https://www.cdc.gov/overdose-prevention/about/understanding-the-opioid-overdose-epidemic.html https://www.cdc.gov/overdose-prevention/about/understanding-...
• mapontosevenths 1y ago
  Robert Anton Wilson once essentially said that any society that hasn't yet found a cure for pain is still barbaric. Right now, opiods are the closest thing we have to that, but they are like Cannabis in that they also have many less useful/safe side effects. One day someone will find a drug that obliterates pain without damaging consciousness, and I suspect that society will become a more evolved place.
  • timschmidt 1y ago
    > One day someone will find a drug that obliterates pain without damaging consciousness That has side effects too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_insensitivity_to_pain#Signs_and_symptoms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_insensitivity_to_pa...
    • mapontosevenths 1y ago
      I once knew a man who was one of the "Frozen Chosin" of the Korean war. He couldn't feel anything in his feet due to the frostbite. It was a constant source of injury and infection for him. I suspect that whatever a "cure for pain" looks like it will involve modulating those signals to be lower, rather than eliminating them.
• antisthenes 1y ago
  It's more of an uninformed opinion than unpopular.