Travis Rieder : The agony of opioid withdrawal — and what doctors should tell patients about it

Travis Rieder at TEDxMidAtlantic
The agony of opioid withdrawal — and what doctors should tell patients about it  (transcript)
Summary
Opioids help you when you are seized with sharp pains by cancer or other circumstances. Killing the unbearable pain is very important, however, there is a problem that prescribing opioids too much is killing patients. And then it seems that doctors don't know that or even if they know, they continue to give opioids to patients.
I think that many people can get benefits from prescribing opioids but no one can protest because patients don't feel a pain by taking opioids and they will die.
The speaker was lucky to be said tapering opioids.

Fighting was really tough and severe. Sleepless nights were continuing, thoughts giving up had come to him many times. He'd decided to use opioids, though, its bottle hadn't been opened when he woke up. It's like hell, but it wouldn't be hell because he is alive.

Doctors and we have to think how to use opioids more seriously.

Words in this story
taper /verb/ diminish or reduce or cause to diminish or reduce in thickness toward one end. narrow, thin (out), come to a point, attenuate
insomnia /noun/ habitual sleeplessness; inability to sleep.
alternate /verb/ occur in turn repeatedly.