There are instances when opiate medications are required to control severe, acute pain (e.g. dental procedures, kidney stones…). How can these pain killers be used safely in recovering addicts? First and foremost, the recovering addict needs to establish excellent communication...
Abstinence refers to complete avoidance of all mood-altering substances in Recovery. Harm Reduction, on the other hand, has often come to mean: the substitution or “replacement” of a toxic addictive substance with a less dangerous but analogous prescribed medication. Recently,...
The opioid epidemic is causing tens of thousands of deaths a year in North America, largely due to the diversion of prescription opiates.
When I was practicing as a family doctor, I remember statements made by representatives of these drug companies assuring doctors that addiction could never be caused by prescribing narcotics for legitimate chronic pain. Now we see lawsuits have been launched against pharmaceutical companies associated with these drugs. […]
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