Bottom Line: There is no question that opioids are powerful pain killers. The problem is... they are also highly addictive and don't actually fix the cause of your pain. If you're struggling with chronic pain, you...
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Bottom Line: It's estimated that over 200 million opioid prescriptions are written each year. This use and abuse has led to an epidemic that's been fueled by chronic pain. Opioids temporarily hide pain by attaching to...
Bottom Line: One of the problems with pain medications is that they only treat the symptoms. In fact, they aren't doing a thing to resolve the source of your pain. And if you are looking for a long-term solution for pain relief, you...
Bottom Line: If you haven't heard about the problems that opioids have caused over the past decade, you must be living under a rock! Did you know that many of the people dying from opioids aren't recreational drug users looking for...
Bottom Line: What began as a chronic pain epidemic has evolved into our current opioid crisis. For decades, opioids were marketed as a "safer" alternative to treat chronic pain. However, as the number of people with chronic pain...
Bottom Line: About 30 years ago, there was a fundamental shift in medicine as to how pain was understood and treated. The number of people with chronic pain seemed to be rising, and it was thought that the options to address the pain...
