Pain killers can be addictive. Prescription pain killers are drugs used to relieve legitimate painful conditions. But all pain killing drugs create tolerance. Tolerance means the drug burns out the ability of a person to feel happy and tolerate even mild pain. Overtime, pain meds back fire and make people drug dependent and sometimes pain killers make people drug addicted.
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Pain killing drugs like methadone, oxycodone, Demerol, Percocet, Vicodin, dilaudid, any other opiate type pain killers, including heroin and morphine are bad medicine in the long run. That means lengthy (years) use of pain killers will increase patients experience of pain.
Methadone Maintenance – Opiate Substitute Drugs
Methadone and Subutex although they are promoted by addiction doctors as substitutes for illegal use of heroin and other opiates, create problems – big problems.
Pain drugs create serious hormone and neurotransmitter imbalances. Both hormones and neurotransmitters play a role in how the body perceives pain. They tend to trick the body into believing their isn’t anything wrong with the body – delusion and fill the brain with a sense of false euphoria for minutes or hours.
The ‘high’ people get from pain meds is directly linked to drug abuse, addiction and ultimately deterioration of health and overdose. When you see a person who seems happier on meds, they are definitely over-consuming these drugs.
Reality Check: if a person has a very bad back after a car accident and surgery, it’s normal for them to recuperate, overcome their injuries and heal. People who look or act elated while taking meds are just that – they are high and in serious risk of becoming dependant on drugs, maybe even addicted.
Pain Pills Depress Feelings
Pain meds including heroin depletes dopamine, a neurotransmitter associated with pleasure and when absent, depression. This means taking pain meds not only will result in depression, but more pain if taken long enough. This condition can be pretty scary for many pain suffers or drug addicts. This is why they take more and more drugs. They are trying to squeeze what little dopamine their drug damaged nerves can produce by increasing their dose of dope. This leads to eventual overdose or addiction.
Drugs simply block or slow the electrical signals through the nervous system and brain. Pain drugs interrupt the way the nerve channels work and at the same time deplete those nerves of helpful messengers – neurotransmitters.
On a related but different area of drug withdrawal from benzodiazepine or anti-anxiety type meds (like paxil, Xanax etc) create electrical flashes in the brain – possibly discharges of electricity from damaged nerve cells or cells that are releasing chemically suppressed pain or shock signals.
Therefore anti-anxiety meds work similarly – they suppress communication of neurotransmitters through the nerve channels. Just like pain meds, they create drug dependent and conditions, often ones requiring very skilled and knowledgeable integrative medical detox approaches.
Integrative Detox Solutions for Methadone, Opiates and Benzo’s
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A person might be happier or feel better simply due to the fact their pain is relieved…..at least to some extent. A person in pain will certainly tend to be of the non-happy sort. Wouldn’t you think? There is a huge difference between the opioid addict and the person who follows doctors orders after having honestly relayed their symptoms and whom achieves analgesia to some extent. What you write makes no distinction at all. If you are taking opioids for pain, you are an addict? Bull. My mom is no addict. She hasn’t ever run out of her meds early and takes a relatively small daily methadone dose….50mg daily spread out in 8 hour intervals….20, 20, 10. She only will take an extra pill in times of very bad pain, but takes less on a good day to even it out. And, that’s her daily thing for a few years now. She is not buzzed or nodding and is able to go about her daily functions thanks to her medication. If she were to be happy, that means she over-doing it? To use that as a measuring stick is just plain absurd. My mom does not get high from her meds….not one bit. If an opioid naive person gets a percocet script after breaking an arm and feels their first pill, that’s drug abuse? It’s pieces like this that do nothing but foster the myths and stereotypes surrounding pain management. Thank the Lord there are enough reasonable people who use fact and science to base their decisions.
Michael, it’s interesting you are reading this blog. If you’re concerned, good. It appears you’re just beginning your research. But letting emotions take over your response indicates you’re also defending the position of illegitimate pain management. Read the side effects of methadone and study up on methadone like I have. You’ll want to find alternate methods of pain management when you do. Healthy alternatives exist for those intelligent enough to go beyond their MD and search out safer and more natural remedies to mind altering drugs. Search ‘glutathione’ as it relates to detox and pain relief. Check out herbal tinctures by natural health professionals. They are more effective than arthritic medications for many people. At DrugRehabAdvisor.com we are serious about getting people healthy and finding real alternatives to dangerous pain medications.
My mother is dependent, not an addict. And yes, there is a big difference.
I must side with Michael on this one
My own experience with pain killers included a period of treatment that did not rely on painkillers. I sought out an alternaive opinion and entered into the care of a doctor who believed in a program very similar to that put forth here. I stopped using my pain medication and began an alternative program after about a year and a half the “doctor” was elated with my “progress” while completly ignoring the effect the non drug program had had on my quality of life. Being in near constant pain was exhausting and sapped my desire to participate in most dailiy activites. I finally came to the conclusion that the doctor was the one “benefiting” from the treatment, this was all about how happy he was with my non use of pain killers again without any consideration of my now near shut in status. I left the program after some 20 months. I returned to my former doctor and began to use the medication again albeit in a smaller dose. In the ten years since my dose has in fact doubled from 20mgs to 40mgs which is apparently not cause for alarm. My condition is irreversible and degenerative and these drugs have given me the ability to lead a near normal life. So when considering treatments be certain to acertain who is the primary beneficiary, this is not to say that strong painkillers are the best answer for every or even most cases but to simply suggest to walk away from your doctor to place someones elses needs above your own is not the path. One needs to determine the best course of action based on the best medical adivce available, your family doctor is usually the best place to start. To simply reject the option of Narcotic pain control without a case by case anaylisis is simply not good medical practice anymore than the indiscriminate use of Narcotics is also not good medical practice it’s all abour balance