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By empowering people to initiate a conversation prior to surgery regarding their pain control options, we hope to reduce the incidence of narcotic addiction…

— Kristi Funk

“Several medical professional organizations acknowledge the utility of opioid therapy and many case series and large surveys report satisfactory reductions in pain, improvement in…

— Andrew Rosenblum

“Despite what appears to be a low risk of addiction in naïve, chronic pain patients, it is reasonable to ask how much harm is…

— Howard L. Fields

I think managing pain with narcotics could be a useful skill. Hiding your true self from you co-workers, which is totally true. Exacting justice…

— Duane Swierczynski

“Government agencies are trying to get doctors to cut back on prescribing opioids. I understand that they need to do something about the epidemic…

— Alison Moore

I've been using narcotics for 20 years.

— Bela Lugosi

It is my impression that 'pain-killing' drugs improve the patient's mood rather than take away the pain.

— John E. Sarno

If I'm going to have to deal, as I get older, with arthritic pain, I don't want to get into opiates.

— Nick Nolte

“In the debate over opioid addiction, there’s one group we aren’t hearing from: chronic pain patients, many of whom need to use the drugs…

— S. E. Smith

Because of the war on drugs, pain patients are treated with skepticism and pain doctors live in fear of being prosecuted for overprescribing. The…

— Maia Szalavitz

“the media, at least in the U.S., tends to focus on pain pill use, abuse, and addiction by people who do not have chronic…

— Anna Hamilton

Control your pain

— Catherine Lucas