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[quote=Anonymous]Re: chronic pain and opioids.  There are situations where nothing else will help.  However, there are many instances where better treatment (often medication and PT/exercise options) could make them unnecessary except perhaps for very occasional use.

I frequent a forum for an inherited, progressive disease that is known to be quite painful.  As with most disorders, there is a wide range of variability, but the worst hit tend to frequent boards. In the last couple of months a new poster has appeared who is a HUGE advocate of hydrocodone and soma for daily use. He makes a point of saying his doctor is totally on board.  He is usually the first to post when a new poster starts a thread about pain, offering his views on how totally useless NSAIDs are.

There have been a number of exchanges where other forum members suggest alternatives to his medical cocktail, and he gets incensed that they are questioning the supremacy of opioids for treatment.  Ironically, he has posted about GI problems and refuses to believe his opioid use could be implicated.

Clearly, a lot more education among both doctors and patients about opioids is needed.  [/quote]

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