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I suspect that there is no comparison to opioids for chronic pain either.

Obviously that is a bad use case for them and you would be crazy to use them for chronic pain.

No, you wouldn't be crazy. You'd simply be following medical advice/what's best for your situation. For some chronic pain sufferers opioids are one of the only options (or is something that is used in addition to other methods/things to alleviate pain). For instance, many people with connective tissue disorders use opioids in addition to other physical methods (surgical, splints, etc)[1], and removing something like an opioid can make life untenable, and amounts to torture [2]

1) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26497567

2) https://www.statnews.com/2016/07/15/chronic-pain-opioids-pat...

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