What is a justifiable reason to be on perscription pain killers?

Severe pain: The first indication for prescription pain medications is severe acute pain such as cancer and trauma with severe fractures. Many people may, however, be on chronic opioids inappropriate lay, for example for chronic back pain. For this sort of pain, opioids are a last resort, after physical therapy and other medications have failed.

Chronic pain: Unbelievable by other pain management efforts. The problem is one that you have already experienced and that is the ongoing escalation of higher and higher doses of pain medications over time. This is not healthy and generally not a good idea. I am a strong proponent of Suboxone in these situations because it does not require dosage escalation overtime. Methadone certainly does. The best option is to get off of pain medications altogether andfind other ways of treating the pain. Once you are stabilized on Suboxone then i would recommend that you start looking around forpain management specialists that may be other maybe able to treat your pain using other more.Modalities.Acupuncture is certainly a very underutilized method of pain control.Please read through the website link that i gave you as i think it is quite comprehensive. I do suspect however that you will require a Suboxone bridge while you look into other treatment modalities.