Sadly, the "integrative" medicine cabal has been very effective at selling their quackery as "nonpharmacological treatments for pain" and thus part of the solution to the opioid addiction epidemic. 1/ https://twitter.com/terminalyill3st/status/1122925744072593409 …
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The proponents of this nonsense are so overtly judgemental and vocal too. I had someone tell me my mother, who can barely walk do to various ailments, doesn't need opioids and she is weak for using them. She literally couldn't move around without them (and other treatments).
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Sometimes I can barely do anything even with them. But I’m sure acupuncture and herbal tea will fix me right up.

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The only successful nonpharmacologic pain intervention for me was orthoses designed to stop my hypermobile joints dislocating themselves. And for me that's cuz my pain has a solvable root cause. Many chronic pain folks don't have that advantage.
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And tbh I hated opioids. I can't think in words or poop on them. That said if someone is in enough pain to put up with the side effects of them and it gives them relief, they need them. As much as I need my orthoses to walk.
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I was exposed to a lot of alternative therapies at RIC’s pain clinic. A couple things helped, but only as an adjunct to medication. Ironically, the things that help aren’t covered by insurance. I sometimes imagine how I might feel if I had access to massage, pool or sauna daily.
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Also, most people have no idea what chronic pain patients have to go through to fill a prescription. I never thought I’d be treated like a criminal by some asshole at Walgreens. I never thought I’d get hit by a car either.
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