| BUSINESSWEEK ONLINE : OCTOBER 25, 1999 ISSUE | ||||||||
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The Truth about Treating Pain MYTH Patients should expect to feel pain as part of the healing process and should just tough it out. FACT Pain can interfere with healing and rewire the whole nervous system, ensuring lifelong suffering. MYTH Narcotics such as morphine, codeine, and demerol should only be used as a last resort, and in minimal doses, to avoid addiction. FACT When taken for pain treatment, narcotics are rarely addictive. MYTH Treat the underlying cause, be it disease or injury, and pain will go away. FACT Pain can be a disease in and of itself. With neuropathic pain, the nervous system has gone haywire, sometimes for no known reason. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ |
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