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I don't blame opiate manufacturers either (unless they are selling through illicit channels). How are providers to determine if people need narcotic pain medication or not, since pain is subjective and impossible to convey? Even then, the body learns to generate pain to influence the response of seeking out medication.
I was on opiates for 2 months for my back, but I limited myself to half a tab of codeine every 4 hrs regardless of how much pain I was in. It probably takes extreme discipline to keep from developing addiction.
It is silly we don't have a national database for health records. It would be impossible to get 10 different prescriptions from 10 providers and fill them all if there was a single database with all that info.
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