There are medically useful drugs that provide relief from pain, but the stronger versions of these are controlled because of their strong side effects and addictive nature. Prudent people will limit their use of them to when they are necessary. There are other types of pain and other ways of dealing with them including distractions, diversions, and addictions. These are some of the things that people use to escape the pain of life, and they actually work. Yet they are not narrow in their effect, for they kill joy as well as pain. How important is your joy? I came that your joy may be full. Do you consider pain to be an acceptable price to pay to experience joy?
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