“Do opioids help chronic pain?”

Unfortunately not. But you have a lot of options like other medications, finding your muscle imbalances and then doing the right physical therapy. And medial branch blocks for the joints in your back.

For many years we thought that opioids did help chronic pain but the data are now in and there’s no reason to believe that opioids have chronic pain. Those people who are already on them for chronic pain will testify that they are helpful but that’s more about their dependency than anything that opioids do for the chronic pain.