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Greg Bufkin, who has suffered severe migraines since the 1990s, found that after he quit taking opioids, to which he had become addicted, his pain was better managed by non-opioid painkillers such as ibuprofen. Amid growing evidence opioids are not an effective treatment for chronic pain — and that they may actually make pain worse — Mississippi is reining in prescriptions with physician restrictions that some are calling unreasonable and even dangerous. The Mississippi State Board of Medical Licensure, comprised of eight medical professionals, has settled on a series of new regulations it hopes will make physicians rethink prescribing opioids for chronic pain, but ultimately leave many decisions up to the doctors. It tricks you into think you're hurting A neurologist in Hattiesburg explained to Bufkin what happened in his brain in a way that made sense to him. Doctors in Mississippi wrote 3.3 million opioid prescriptions in 2017 — more than there are people in the state. She has been taking a combination of opioids and anti-inflammatory drugs roughly five years. If it were not for the anti-inflammatory I'm on with the (opioid) pain medication, I would be bedridden," Corley said. It's not the medication." Austin also takes an antidepressant. A 2003 study found that combating feelings of social exclusion and physical pain take place in the same part of the brain.