Pain Medication

[Guest guest]

Here is some interesting info,

On the radio today I hear one of those spots where a doctor comes on

and talks about recent medical developments. This doc was talking about pain

and used a recent article in either Jama or the New England journal of

medicine. He said that after getting at the cause of the pain, chronic pain

is best treated with opiates (narcotics). He stated that when patients come

to him he goes through a whol eries of questions to determine if they are

seeking drugs or pain relief. (which in it's self tells us something) . He

went on to say that patients who take narcotics for chronic pain have an

extremely low incidence of abuse and that the study says that pain killers

are actually under prescribed because doctors are afraid of creating addicts.

I would like to find a copy of that article, but I'm not sure how to get

medical journals. I believe this is not the first such study. Yet, doctors

let people suffer in pain because of an unfounded fear they will make

junkies. Where's the science.

Rob