No one likes pain and for those who are in a serious health crisis it is important to know that there are pain management options available
. While they are not always good for the body if you or a loved one are in severe pain with a serious, life threatening illness, then you are likely in favor of using as many pain meds as are needed to get the job done and with good reason. Honestly, pain is not only serious but severe pain can make a person crazy and in extreme cases living on pain medications is necessary.
Unfortunately, many in our society are ingesting bottle after bottle of pain medications and this may be due less to the fact that they can't bear the pain of an illness or injury and have more to do with the fact that they can't bear dealing with their own life. Many find that once they are on the pain medications they enjoy the rush so much that they keep coming up with different excuses for why they need to refill that prescription over and over again.
There are many reasons why the use of prescription pain medications should be avoided and by far one of the biggest reasons is that they are highly addictive and most people won't stop taking them once they start. It is much better that for a minor illness or injury that an individual find some over the counter pain medications and take them instead, in the long run this will likely serve them best.
Of course, over time the body also becomes used to these pain medications as well and this creates a need for newer and stronger pain medications. The more that are taken the less effective they are and this can also be important because if a person really has a more serious condition they will likely struggle to get the relief they need.
There are opinions being floated around that have to do with the necessity of patients that do require stronger and more potent medications, but it also seems to be part of a bigger agenda of the pharmaceutical industry as a whole and doctors indirectly to not curb or limit prescriptions of pain medications in anyone in need for any reason. If however, these medications were limited to the terminally ill or severely injured persons, it would drastically reduce the cases of new people become addicted and would reduce many of the indirect issues associated with over prescribing these medications.