This could be true, but needs much more analysis. I’ve spoken about increasing opiates for pain relief elsewhere (e.g. my EAG 2017 talk, forum posts here on drug policy reform). It’s not easy to compare systemic change—which is what opiate reform would be—to micro-interventions in general. Also I’m not aware of there being any data on the badness of chronic pain on a 1-10 LS scale to be able to make comparisons anyway.
This could be true, but needs much more analysis. I’ve spoken about increasing opiates for pain relief elsewhere (e.g. my EAG 2017 talk, forum posts here on drug policy reform). It’s not easy to compare systemic change—which is what opiate reform would be—to micro-interventions in general. Also I’m not aware of there being any data on the badness of chronic pain on a 1-10 LS scale to be able to make comparisons anyway.