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Abuse of Opioids takes away from all the good it can do

Chronic Pain | Last Active: May 8, 2023 | Replies (132)

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@philipsnowdon

Absolutely, I’ve been successfully utilizing “OPIOIDS” for 30 years now. It’s the only thing that’s kept me alive and enabling me to enjoy some quality of life. The entire
“Opioid Crisis” is greatly over reported and mis reported to the detriment of genuine and authentic patients who relay upon them as their “ONLY” viable source of effective pain management. Legitimate pain patients rarely if ever s Ouse their medication. There’s nothing to abuse. It’s not like the opioids take all of their pain away and they attain some kind of ethereal state of mind or sense of ecstasy! Rarely is all my pain ever gone! At best, most of my pain is managed where I am not in a state of horrific and uncomfortable pain beyond tolerance. The “street epidemic” and abuse of opioids has absolutely nothing to do with this self invented drug crisis and or drug war which can’t be fought or neutralized. It’s like blaming astronaut for not getting off the launch pad because the booster rockets didn’t fire propetly!

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It is good to hear you have found some relief with prudent use of opioids.

I am reluctant to use the relatively mild hydrocodone 5 mg and acetaminophen 325 mg (Norco) for pain attributed to multiple spinal compression fractures due to a history of "obstipation" aka chronic constipation. Instead I limp along with about 2200 mg/day of acetaminophen but am very unproductive and limited due to the chronic, but tolerable pain.
Is constipation an issue for you or others using opioids? How do you handle it?