Despite what appears to be a low risk of addiction in naïve, chronic pain patients, it is reasonable to ask how much harm is actually done to patients with chronic pain by withholding opiate analgesics.
Howard L. Fields
addiction, chronic-pain, chronic-pain-stigma, harm, opiate, opiates, opioid-abuse, opioid-use, opioids, pain-killer-kills, pain-relief, painkillers, withholding-care