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TygrBright

(21,385 posts)
5. I prefer to think it's good coping mechanisms.
Mon Mar 23, 2015, 04:45 PM
Mar 2015

The meds are a terrible trap. Making the choice between pain now and worse pain later, it's all too easy to make the wrong choice.

By letting the pharmaceutical companies turn pain into a profit center, we've taken a giant step backward from developing better, safer, more sustainable ways of managing chronic pain.

But I know a few individuals who live with chronic pain and manage to be kind and pleasant when they're among friends, so I know it can be done.

Takes a helluvan effort.

admiringly,
Bright

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