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Managing acute pain is different from chronic pain. The 'new idea' you refer to is that people who get opioids in hospitals don't get addicted. Of course, the important difference is that when people get better after surgery their life is generally goin in a good direction. It's easy to stop using opioids when you are finally able to walk, work, move, live, love again.

Chronic pain is basically the opposite. Where depression is almost guaranteed, and susceptibility to addiction is very high.