Chronic pain patients are not drug addicts! Imagine that you are taking opiates for chronic pain. After a relatively short period of time you will develop a dependency. And if your supply of pills is interrupted for any reason, you will suffer withdrawals, the same as if you were an addict who has been taking opiates for fun. T he withdraw als wi ll certainly increase the extreme pain you'll be experiencing because you don't have opiates to keep yo ur chronic pain in check. This scenario is experienced every day in America by thousands of people who suffer from chronic pain and who are dependent on opiates to lead a normal life. I'm not talking about acute pain, which is short-term. This is about chronic pain. And I'm not talking about opiate abuse or addiction. People often con fuse opiate dependence w ith addic tion. It happe ns so o ften with medical professionals these days that it seems intenti onal. Tak ing opi ates for chronic pain will result ...
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