Are there any meaningful painkillers that are not addictive? You mean to tell me that in the more than 150 years (or however long it has been), drug makers have not found a satisfactory alternative to opioids such as morphine and OxyContin?
Over the years, the pharmaceuticals have developed one drug after another, only to see them pass from use in the hospitals to use in the streets. We're blessed with both cocaine and heroin thanks to this pipeline.
This is the 21st Century. Advancements in medicine are on most every front. Why not, then, on this? I hear of national crusades to cure cancer and such. And, President Trump has called opioid usage a national emergency. Why not, then, make this our new frontier: to find a non-addictive, almost harmless pain killer? Why not a we-will-not-be-denied approach to this, same as with so many other things we see as imperative?
Give us a somewhat harmless painkiller, Big Pharma, or we will march in the streets.
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