There are a number of effective treatment options to treat pain killer addiction to prescription opioids and to help manage the sometimes severe withdrawal symptoms that can accompany sudden stopping of pain killers or drugs. Although detoxification is not a treatment for pain killer addiction, it can help relieve withdrawal symptoms while the patient adjusts… Read More »
Addiction is both a biological and psychological condition. More than 415,000 people received treatment for pain killer abuse or addiction this past year. Many chronic pain patients may be under-treated as a result of doctors who are trying to gain control over pain killer addiction, they report. When you’re addicted physically to a drug, like… Read More »
Common side effects and adverse reactions of pain killers are: nausea, vomiting, drowsiness, dry mouth, miosis (contraction of the pupil), orthostatic hypotension (blood pressure drops upon sudden standing) — often happens when arising too fast when getting out of bed in the morning, urinary retention, constipation and fecal impaction. Patients can innocently start taking pain… Read More »
When you’re addicted physically, accidentally or otherwise, to a drug, like a pain killer or alcohol, etc., it’s because you’ve suppressed or shut down your body’s production of endorphins, which are natural opiate pain killers. And when this happens you start craving the drug that you replaced the endorphins with. Your body needs the endorphins.… Read More »