Why is out ok for cancer patients to get help with chronic pain with narcotics for a long timebut not people with chronic painful diseases? a dr posted that on here one

Not the same: first every body deserve to be pain free second patient with cancer. terminal cancer with life expectancy of few months the long term effect of the narcotics does not apply the goal is to keep them pain free the rest of their short life non cancer patient deserves to be pain free but study after study had shown bad side effect of the long use of narcotics and the goal is to be pain free not narc l

Because they : generally have a more life-threatening disease with less chance of chronic addiction and all the side effects of narcotics, and doctors are probably less likely to be scrutinized by state medical boards

Not useful: There are more and more studies that not only do opioids NOT help in chronic pain , they may be harmful. There are a lot of other medication that help more, usually a combination of medication, physical therapy, biobehavioral techniques and complementary strategies are more effective