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Games better than drugs? No. Absolutely not, but hell, games + drugs now theres some good painkillage ;)

There's no way I would pass up opiates to play games, they are just too good. Even the shitty ones are great pain killers, they work very well for me. If anything i'd say they are under prescribed and they give you enough when you really need it (i was given morphine and hydrocondone when I was last hospitalised I would have been better off getting my own heroin)]]>Jan 3rd 2008 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/video-games-better-than-drugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/video-games-better-than-drugs/Jan 3rd 2008 10:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/video-games-better-than-drugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/video-games-better-than-drugs/Jan 4th 2008 10:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/video-games-better-than-drugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/video-games-better-than-drugs/Jan 3rd 2008 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/video-games-better-than-drugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/video-games-better-than-drugs/
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Just doesn't roll off the tongue quite as nice.]]>Jan 3rd 2008 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/video-games-better-than-drugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/video-games-better-than-drugs/Jan 3rd 2008 10:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/video-games-better-than-drugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/video-games-better-than-drugs/Jan 3rd 2008 3:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/video-games-better-than-drugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/video-games-better-than-drugs/Jan 3rd 2008 10:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/video-games-better-than-drugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/video-games-better-than-drugs/Jan 3rd 2008 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/video-games-better-than-drugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/video-games-better-than-drugs/Jan 3rd 2008 11:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/video-games-better-than-drugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/video-games-better-than-drugs/Jan 3rd 2008 11:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/video-games-better-than-drugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/video-games-better-than-drugs/Jan 3rd 2008 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/video-games-better-than-drugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/video-games-better-than-drugs/
I had major lung surgery a couple of years ago - for almost a year, there was not a position I could put my body in where it didn't feel like every muscle in my chest was being continuously ripped to shreds. If you've ever torn a muscle, or maybe more accurately a muscle and a tendon simultaneously (because that's part of what they have to do), seriously, imagine that first sharp pain you felt just continuing on forever. That's a start in understanding the pain I had.

Because my surgeon was a masochist, I had two weeks shortly after the surgery where my pain meds had run out and he didn't want to prescribe any more. I played a lot of video games in that time, and no, they didn't help. I couldn't even concentrate on them, the pain was so bad.

A few weeks later I went to a pulminologist who referred me to a pain specialist, I got new medication and that helped.

Video games can help pass the time when you're sitting at home on pain meds unable to do much of anything else (especially because meds don't make the pain go away, they just make it tolerable), so in that way video games + meds are better than just meds. But video games cannot help with pain by themselves.

Not real pain, anyway.
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Hard to imagine some of the ruthless video games being better than counseling -especially not in the long term]]>Jan 3rd 2008 2:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/video-games-better-than-drugs/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/video-games-better-than-drugs/Jan 3rd 2008 4:04PM