Pain Specialists Say Narcotics Are an Unproved Treatment for Headaches and Should Be Rarely Used
For six years Lori Messinger suffered crippling headaches.
"I was crawling out of my skin in pain," she said.
Increasingly heavier doses of narcotics -- powerful painkillers in the same class as morphine -- were prescribed. But she said the headaches just got worse.
"I had no life," said Messinger. "I couldn't be a mother to my three kids."
She would end up in the emergency room two to three times a week -- for even more narcotics.
"Not one shot of morphine but two shots of morphine,"... Full Story
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