True or Not?

[Guest guest]

A doctor I saw in Physical Medicine said that after time, narcotics mess up (he

said it more technically) the nerves and make them raw (ultra sensitive),

especially when narcotics are taken either in high doses or over long periods of

time.

Is this true?

He also said the goal is to get patients off of any type of narcotics for this

reason, because the longer they are on narcotics, the more pain they will have,

and ultimately they will need more narcotics, which just exacerbates the

problem.

True, or not?

Jade