Originally Posted by SilentKnight

Banned - no. Regulated better - yes.

My wife suffers from reumatoid arthritis to the point where she receives regular cortisone injections (after joint draining), methotrexate injections and plaquinil infusion treatments...and still endures an unbelievable amount of pain on a daily basis. The cost of the infusion treatments is phenomenal - $2k per session (thankfully we have great benefit coverage).

Even with all that - on a good day, she has to dose up on Aleve just to be semi-mobile. As a child her doctor had her on a regiment of up to 20-30 aspirin a day (which to this day she thinks did more harm than good at the time).