How and why do people become addicted to pain killers, especially when they aren't in pain? Last week I came across a piece by a lady who'd suffered some injury and had been prescribed pain killers. She dutifully took these but she noticed an additional effect: the anxiety she'd suffered with for years began to feel better. This was the start of a journey with pain killers, not for pain relief, but for anxiety reduction.
People become addicted to pain killers for a whole variety of reasons...
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