I echo every word you said... even got published in an article about chronic pain sufferers being left behind in this day and age, how it effects us in our everyday life, and got to add some pretty choice words, to boot.
There's a lot of issues if they start messing around with adrenalin receptors. I would, no doubt, try it. But I'd be a hell of lot more worried about it than about the pain killers I've been on, since it took my doc and me a long time to come up with a regimen that approximately "works" for me.
Adrenalin has a lot of bad side effects, especially if you're overweight (which, thanks to my chronic condition, I no longer am). But from one who had to deal with adrenalin side effects for a long time and had to learn to master them, this sounds like just what you called it... a panacea... in a hurry in order to get opioids out of people's hands.
Truth... I didn't read the article, though I will later on. I may change my mind once I read it; but life is way too hectic and loud at the moment to concentrate on anything. I'm just sick and tired of the worlds opioid troubles being laid at our feet. No one can tell me that 3 pills over a 24 hour period is "pushing it" after the spinal surgeries I've had, not to mention the lupus and fibro. Without these meds, I, too, would seriously contemplate if life were worth living if all I had to look forward to was chronic, never ending pain. And one of the dumbest questions they ask every three months that I have to check in with the doc in order to get the meds renewed is, "are you depressed? Do you think the meds are making you depressed."
It's so obvious when listening to questions or listening to or reading someone's opinion whether or not they've ever suffered from pain that never lets up. And to answer a down further message, no... it doesn't just make you not care. That's what pot is suppose to be for, right? Except some of us still live in states too backwards and religious to allow it, even for medicinal purposes. You do what you have to do to live and have some kind of quality of life. I ain't got much, but with meds at least I can still make an effort.
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