Is a Placebo Just as Effective as Morphine in Treating Rheumatoid Arthritis Pain?

However, opioids are also extremely addictive. If you're not careful, you can suddenly find yourself dependent on this little pill just to simply feel that you can tolerate your day. This also means trouble because, often, by this point you're addicted, and you have already built up a tolerance to the medication where it's no longer relieving the pain the same way it used to. So now, what we have is a constant need to take this potent medication, but without the wonderful pain relief that it had given you in the beginning. It is simply allowing you to function.