In the 1990s, evidence accumulated that people could experience pain in the absence of existing tissue damage, through activation of nervous system pain pathways. This resulted in increased prescriptions for pain-releasing opioid medications, as it is medically unethical to leave real pain untreated. Explain if you feel that opioid drugs should or should not be prescribed as treatments for pain and why or why not.Describe which brain area you think is most important to focus on when trying to best treat pain and why you have chosen that area.Indicate which of the pain treatments you think is most promising and why.Explain what you think is the most challenging thing about treating pain conditions and why.

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In the 1990s, evidence accumulated that people could experience pain in the absence of existing tissue damage, through activation of nervous system pain pathways. This resulted in increased prescriptions for pain-releasing opioid medications, as it is medically unethical to leave real pain untreated. Explain if you feel that opioid drugs should or should not be prescribed as treatments for pain and why or why not.
Describe which brain area you think is most important to focus on when trying to best treat pain and why you have chosen that area.
Indicate which of the pain treatments you think is most promising and why.
Explain what you think is the most challenging thing about treating pain conditions and why.

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