Essay On Opioids

Opioids No Better Than Ibuprofen for Chronic Pain In the article it talks about opioids and how opioids may reduce pain but has more of a risk benefactor when taking them. When taking drugs such as, Acetaminophen, Ibuprofen, and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs they can reduce pain without the risk of accidental death and addiction. Opioids effect people’s daily life’s when doing their daily activities. Some of those activities can be walking working, sleeping and enjoying life. Opioids have had increase in history among other drugs like heroin, hydrocodone with U.S deaths. According to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention in Altana, Since 1999 everything has quadrupled with these deaths. With this opioids they are 6 out of 10 the lead to drug over dose leading to death. The CDC recommends opioids being your last pick when wanting to reduce pain due the benefactors that follow when taking it. But if you do have to take it they suggest doing exercise or physical therapy to help reduce symptoms. CDC also advises you to try the less …show more content…
Some patients were given opioids and others were given other medicines such as acetaminophen or ibuprofen. The study lasted for one year and the participants were around the age of 50 years old. Participants mostly complained about back pain being and other 35 percent said pain was hip or knee osteoarthritis pain. In the end researchers recorder their results asking them on a 10 point pain scale on how they were doing when taking the drugs. For the people taking the opioids at beginning of the year they rated their pain at 5.4 and at the end of the year 3.4. When taking other drugs people said their pain started at 5.5 and at the end 3.3. In the end with the intensity of pain using other drug had a slightly better difference with the lest pain at the end of the year compared to