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- It is easy to get addicted to pain medicines.
- The side effects of pain medicines cannot be controlled.
- Pain medicines are most effective when given as shots.
- Pain medicine cannot really control pain.
- Pain medicine often makes you say or do embarrassing things.
- If you take pain medicine when you have some pain, then it might not
work as well if the pain becomes worse.
- It is easier to put up with pain than with the side effects that come
from pain medicine.
- Large doses of pain medicines cause death.
- Pain pills can't relieve pain as well as intravenous pain medication.
- Aspirin or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs are not very effective
for any kind of pain.
- If the patient dies soon after an injection, the last person who
gave the medication has contributed to the death.
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