As a person takes more and
more narcotic pain medications, their tolerance generally increases, requiring higher doses for the narcotic to be effective at fighting pain; the body adjusts to opioids.
We would be able to do a far
more effective job towards educating the public about hypothyroidism, not to mention determining those who are being treated for chronic
pain with
narcotics (an epidemic), when they should be receiving a T4 / T3 or T3 - only
medication because of an underlying thyroid illness.