intractable
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In the 1990s, concerned that people in chronic pain were being undertreated, lawmakers passed the Intractable Pain Act, which made it easier to prescribe opioids.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 3, 2022
Intractable suffering is defined by patients, not doctors.
From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2021
It’s a safe bet that Minnesota’s Advisory Panel on Intractable Pain would have vetoed the state’s entire 2014 medical marijuana law if its cautious members had been given a chance.
From Washington Times • Nov. 23, 2015
Intractable wars, terror and poverty in the Middle East and beyond will continue to drive the surge.
From Time • Sep. 7, 2015
Life springs not from the couch of Death, Nor Muse nor Grace can raise the dead; Unturn’d then let the mass remain, Intractable to sun or rain.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage
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