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Maybe, but what would you recommend instead?
The usual painkillers are more addictive, have worse side effects (which is why they cannot be used as frequently as the patients would need), and they also get stolen by people working in medicine for recreational purposes.
One possibility is medical marijuana, with sufficient precautions that it stays medical. I don't know exactly what level of precautions would be optimal, but you could do a lot better than we have now.
Always try to keep in mind that precautions are not free. Precautions stop a lot of people now from getting enough pain killing medication. I have experienced this myself, for 6 hellish weeks.