Life after opioids: 'I went home and cried for a long time. I felt really stupid'

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For people managing chronic pain, the push to reduce opioid prescription has left them feeling lost and unsupported

Louisa O’Neil inhales deeply when she is asked about her history of pain. Then, dispassionately, like recalling a string of part-time jobs, she lists the history of surgeries, injuries, accidents and conditions that have rendered her in a near permanent state of pain for the past 16 years. Ligaments ripped off bone, regularly dislocating jaw, jaw replacement, endometriosis, fibromyalgia, separated pelvis, bone grafts, arthritis. It is a long list.

 

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