The Herb Life – Chronic Pain Patients Rejoice

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Chronic pain is a multi-faceted condition with a variety of root causes and severity levels. Despite being such a complex topic, chronic pain has been typically treated the same way, with opioids. Medications like fentanyl, oxycodone, hydrocodone, codeine, morphine and more are synthetic drugs with highly addictive properties. Chronic pain conditions can force people to modify their daily actions, or prevent them from functioning entirely. As a result, we are in an undeniable opioid crisis, a phrase we hear in the news on a regular basis.

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