Survey respondents who have chronic pain feel stigmatized over opioid use
MONTREAL — Celine Charbonneau knows what it’s like to feel pain.
For about 10 years she lived with considerable pain in her legs after an unsuccessful operation for a birth defect.
Charbonneau, who is now president of a Quebec association that represents people with chronic pain, took opioids during that period, including Duragesic.
“It’s the equivalent of fentanyl,” she said in an interview Wednesday.