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chronic pain

"Ultimately, it didn’t matter what we called my disease. What mattered was learning to live with it."
Your makeshift WFH setup can lead to pain and long-term health problems that will stay with you after the coronavirus pandemic.
Opioids helped me manage my extreme chronic pain, but no one told me how addictive they were – or how hard it would be stop using them, writes Katie Bennett-Davies