Most of us are ready to ditch Prescription pain meds for alternatives:
Bottom Line: The growing opioid epidemic combined with the growing awareness of the role of many prescription pain pills play in it, seems to be leading to a change in the way we'd prefer to manage pain. According to Gallup, 78% of us now prefer alternatives to prescription pain pills if available. That's the highest figure on record. What was most notable to me in the research was this stat...
The likelihood of prescription pain pills being prescribed for like diagnosis has tripled since 1999. Simply put doctors are three times as likely to offer up an opioid for pain as they were eighteen years ago. In what's likely to be directly related, deaths attributed to opioid addiction is up 400% over the same period of time. For those opting for alternatives to the pain pills, physical therapy is the most common treatment sought with chiropractic care being the second most common.