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I fear that we will overcorrect and make painkillers hard to get for people that are suffering. In some countries, the chronically ill are unable to get access to powerful painkillers and that is a damn shame.

I also think that we need more research into pain-fighting interventions to develop non-opioid painkillers.

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If you take a look at /r/ChronicPain, it's evident that this is already impacting on a lot of people.

We don't need to demonise opioids, we need to carefully control their use.

at the risk of being called a heartless idiot:

doesn't the body get used to opiods so x months or weeks later they no longer work as before? If so, seems like a losing game

It depends.

With kratom, as long as you don't escalate your dose, tolerance never seems to develop.

I've been on a weak opioid (prescription!) for over 2 years now. The 'good sensations' left after only a couple of weeks of taking it, but it's still as effective on pain now as it was at the start.

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