Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by drooogs 2845 days ago
i'm curious whether you experience chronic pain yourself. opioids are a dangerous class of drugs, and the decision to use them is based on weighing the severity of a person's pain against the inherent risks of using the drugs. in a certain sense, i find it quite inhumane that this decision can only be made by someone who has no accurate way of knowing how much pain the patient feels.