A new study of 584 patients which suggests that people may be overusing pain medication, to their detriment. 4 in 10 people surveyed said they were not satisfied with their treatment, the main reasons being insufficient pain relief and failure to reduce attacks. And the pain was so bad for 1 in 10 that they had to miss school or work for at least one week. The frequent usage of painkilling drugs is a red flag to doctors, who believe that they are being over used. The occasional painkiller for the occasional headache is not going to hurt. But according to a survey of patients in general practice clinics, about 1 in 5 used pain medication for more than 4days in a week a rate that doctors deem ecessive. Nearly half of those surveyed had frequent headaches 4 or more a month. "Over time, when the brain gets used to a certain level of painkillers and when they drop off because they are excreted from the body, the brain will give you a headache to get you to take a painkiller,"Dr Charles Siow, president of the Headache Society of Singapore (HSS). This brian-induced headache, also known as medication overuse headaches, would make painkillers decreasingly effective and the pain itself diffcult to treat over time. Headaches can cause serveral areas of head to hurt, including a network of nerves which extends over the scalp and certain nerves in the face, mouth and throat. Migraine headaches are more vulnerable to this kind of drug overuse, as they are recurrent and tend to be more severe and debiliating.

I felt that we should not always depand on painkiller pills.