The spate of news about the apparent epidemic of prescription drug addiction may give the impression that these drugs are so irresistibly powerful that, sooner or later, we will all end up either getting hooked, or getting paranoid from inflated fear of addiction.
While narcotic pain relief is tagged to be the proverbial poison that is marketed to unsuspecting senior citizens, both doctors and patients suffering from chronic pain are left in the middle of a dilemma: the need for pain relief drugs to alleviate suffering from severe and debilitating pain, and the exaggerated fear of addiction risks that come with powerful painkillers.
Narcotic pain relief is used to ease pain caused by chronic illness, surgery, accident or injury. They act upon specific receptors in the brain and spinal cord to ease pain and reduce your emotional response to pain.
Prescription drug addiction, specifically narcotic painkillers, can really be devastating and may lead to destroying lives. Many experts, however, believed that this inflated fears of addiction is depriving a lot of patients in desperate conditions from availing the painkillers they so badly needed. Moreover, the...