The treatment that comes after surgery can sometimes cause more problems for people than the surgery itself. Most people who undergo surgery require some form of medication to relieve the pain afterwards, which can often be seen as more harrowing and frustrating to deal with than the procedure itself. Medication designed to provide a respite from the pain are in use, of course, but there have been problems with these medications that make post-surgical therapy more frustrating to deal with than it should or could be. It is simply that the drugs being used at the moment tend to have either potent side effects or have the potential to be habit-forming and narcotic in nature. The demand for non-narcotic pain relief is also a relatively new thing in the medical environment, so there hasn’t been much headway made there either.
The primary form of drug used to relieve pain after surgery are known as opioids, which include such substances as opium and morphine, both very addictive, very narcotic substances. The two of them have side effects on practically every part of the body and can easily develop into a chemical and psychological addiction when used. They have also...