Really? Is that your personal experience? Because I have decades history of prescribed Opioids for pain relief and other than when I received an injection of a really potent pain med, I never experienced what you stated. And as far as the article, when I experience serious pain OTC doesn't do jack, to put it politely.
@GtHawk I know/hope you are aware that long-term use of opioids weakens the heart. Yeah,if the pain is unbearable,you have no choice but to take them,but there is a price to be paid down the road.
I had a friend that probably died 10-15 years too early after getting one of his legs traumatically amputated by a AK round on Hickory Hill near DaNang. He not only had "ghost pains" from his missing leg,but the artificial legs people had to use back then weren't no where near as comfortable or work as well as the high-tech ones of today,and his stub was always sore and hurting. Truth to tell,he had taken narcotics for the pain for so long I seriously doubt they even worked anymore. He probably had to keep taking it just to keep from getting sick.
But in his case it was a trade-off. He had to take them to make live worth living,so he had an additional 25-30 years of life he might not have had without the drugs.