Pain Killer Addiction | Opiod Medication Addiction
Thank you for seeking help for your issues with Opiod pain medications. We at Origins have extensive experience with those whose drug of choice is Vicodin, Oxycontin, Dilaudid, etc. and we would be pleased to help you to overcome this horrible affliction in our curriculum of recovery.
Opiod pain medication addiction has gained greater prevalence in the past three decades as the medical specialty of pain management, which most widely distributes such medications, has continued to gain greater prominence as our population overall gets older and requires more medical specialists that caters to the bodily pain involved in an aging population. Though, as you probably well know, many of the pain medications prescribed for legitimate medical use often end up in the hands of the recreational user rather than the pain management patient.
That said, it is quite likely that you do or, at least when you were initially prescribed such medications you had, a legitimate medical need to be on pain medication. The problem is that these medications are very, very addictive and even those who took them initially with no intentions of abuse will often find themselves in a place where the remediation of pain is much less important to the user than the euphoria provided by such pills. If you fall in this category of having legitimate, chronic pain but your use of pain medication has gotten out of hand, please know that we will work with your physician to do all that we can to both control your pain and also address your issues with addiction. We want you to be healthy and well, and we absolutely do not want you to have to suffer with pain; that said, we also don’t want you to die of a pill overdose either, which is a very real possibility given how quickly people build up a tolerance to opiod pain medications.
Quite often with those of our clients who come to us for pain killer addiction, they often have very high liver values and in some cases outright liver damage. This is often because some of the opiod pain medications that are easier to get generally also include high amounts of Acetaminophen (Tylenol), which is exceptionally bad for your liver. In fact, it is debatable whether high amounts of pain medications with Tylenol or a half gallon of vodka a day is actually worse for your liver. The good news is that the liver is an amazingly resilient organ and with our excellent trained medical staff, we will make sure your liver and the rest of your body comes back to health as quick as possible.
Also, and we don’t ever want to come off to strong with a message of doom and gloom, but we have often see people like you whose initial preference for opiod pain medications in pill form have evolved into an actual heroin addiction as they are chemically very similar drugs and heroin is often found to be a viable alternative because, depending upon your area of the country it may be much cheaper. Now, before you scoff at that notion, know that we have seen quite a few people who began taking a few vicodin for back pain (and never would have ever considered something like heroin) and within a few years of progressive addiction, they had a very healthy IV heroin habit. We are not saying this is definitely going to happen, but just know that addiction in any form is irrational and progressive and just be willing to consider that if you do not seek help now for your pill-based opiate addiction, you could very well one day find yourself in the grips of heroin addiction as well.
Also, it is important for us to tell you about a medication that has risen to prominence in the past few decades or so which is called “Buprenorphine” (brand name Suboxone, Subutex, Buprenenx, Temgesic, etc.) and it was developed to aid within the opiod detox process, as it is iteself a weaker opiod that will prevent you from being in complete withdrawal, but will also not get you as high as pain killers. We believe there is therapeutic, short-term use of this medication as a detox medication and should be used only under the supervision of a physician and administered by a trained professional. At Origins, you will be permitted to use such medications as part of your detox, provided it is for a relatively short-term period of time and you will be tapered off relatively soon. We do not believe these to constitute a long-term solution to addiction, though we recognize that some chronic pain patients may need to be on them longer than ideal.
Opiod Pain Killer addiction is a terrible and tragic foe. However, we are no strangers to presenting individuals like yourself with the proper recovery curriculim so that you can live the rest of your life free of opiod pain medications.
If you would like to talk about your addiction to pain killers, then please feel free to call us at 1-888-U-GET-WELL.
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