Results have not been encouraging. We seem up against a dilemma built into Nature, much like the Heisenberg situation. There is nearly complete parallelism between analgesia and addiction. The more pain it takes away, the more we desire it. It appears we can't have one property without the other, any more than a particle physicist can specify position without suffering an uncertainty as to the particle's velocity
The results regarding pain relief and its relationship to addiction have been disappointing. This presents a dilemma inherent in nature, reminiscent of principles in physics. The connection between alleviating pain and the risk of developing addiction is notable; the more effective pain relief is, the stronger the desire for it seems to become. This suggests a troubling interdependence between both properties.
Just as in particle physics, where one cannot simultaneously know a particle's position and its velocity with complete certainty, we find that analgesia and addiction are intertwined. The quest for one sometimes leads inexorably to the other, highlighting a complex challenge in managing pain relief without fostering dependency.
