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Chronic pain is defined most simply as pain that does not go away. It can be caused by an injury, by nerve damage, or by illness, and can occur in any part of the body. Chronic pain can range from mild to severe, but it is constant. Being in chronic pain can make it difficult to live a normal productive life.  Many people who experience chronic pain resort to medications to help make life bearable. Unfortunately, many of the medications commonly prescribed for chronic pain are highly addictive. This means that people can be in pain and also suffering from addictions to these pills. Some of the most commonly prescribed, and most addictive, pain medications are oxycodone, codeine, vicodin, and morphine.

Oxycodone is a narcotic used to treat moderate to severe pain caused by fractures, arthritis, and cancer. It goes by brand names such as Percoset, and OxyContin. Oxycodone is a highly addictive pain medication. Many people begin taking it to manage pain after an injury or accident, then find that they are addicted. Because oxycodone dampens the brain’s responses to pain, people find that they need more and more of it to get the same level of euphoria and pain relief.  When taken as directed, oxycodone can cause headaches, nausea, and dry mouth. Overdoses can cause seizures and coma.

Codeine is another opiate commonly used as a pain medication. It is also frequently used in cough medicines. Because codeine is highly addictive, many people find themselves “hooked” without realizing it. Although codeine is only available by prescription, it is possible to become addicted to cough syrup containing codeine. Many people who are addicted to codeine take it along with alcohol, which multiplies its negative effects on the body. Sometimes people get codeine as part of a prescription for dental procedures and accompanying pain. When someone notices the relaxing effects on both pain as well as one’s stress levels, it can be used as another way to deal with daily problems rather than to get more permanent and lasting solutions that are natural.

We also observe commercials on television all the time that show us ways to relieve pain, improve depression, get a better night’s sleep and deal with daily aches. This starts to train the mind to look at prescription pills as ways to solve our daily problems and not explore natural means. Try to incorporate some natural solutions including dietary changes, supplements, increased exercise and meditation to use the mind and body to heal itself. The mind is a very powerful tool in coping with pain and can be explored to aid in relieving discomfort.

Learn more about Prescription Drug Addiction Recovery and Vicoden Side Effects

A brief discussion about the ramifications of methadone treatment for people who are hooked on vicodin and similar drugs. Also some discussion about the state of the methadone clinic system in America

Many people go to their doctors for treatment of an injury and are given a narcotic medication like vicodin or Percocet. These medications work initially, but over time two things happen; they tend to lose their effectiveness, and when a person stops taking them the person feels very sick. Both of these are signs of physical dependence, and are referred to as tolerance and withdrawal.

The medications that people take for pain relief have effects on how the person feels that go beyond their help with pain; people feel a sense of warmth and pleasure from the medication and often use the medication to temporarily relieve anxiety, tenseness, insomnia, or even fatigue. When the medications are stopped on the other hand the person has ‘rebound’ of these symptoms, and feels much worse than before starting the medication. Because of tolerance, patients often take more pills than prescribed, causing them to run out early; when they call the doctor they are suddenly treated as if they have done something wrong. Sometimes they are scolded; perhaps it is even worse when nobody says anything out loud, but instead the patients detects ‘little looks’ from the doctor’s staff or rude treatment that suggests that people in the office are thinking of them in a negative way. Patients wonder if they are imagining things, or if people are really talking about them.

Trouble at Home

At home the patient on pain pills becomes more and more irritable. He is worried about running out early and having the return of pain, or even withdrawal symptoms. He feels sick more often. He has become more depressed. He starts to feel as if nobody understands him, and he takes more and more of the pain pills to try to keep his mood and energy level up so that he can go to work. The fights at home become more and more frequent, and he feels more and more alone inside.

Recreational Use of Pain Pills

In other cases this same sequence will occur, but instead of starting win injury it starts with experimentation. A person is given the pills by a friend, or finds them in a parent’s medicine cabinet. Or maybe the person has been feeling down, and notices that the codeine that they took for their wisdom tooth surgery made them feel better, and so makes up an injury so that the doctor will prescribe more. In all of these cases the people involved become more and more depressed and more and more sick and tired, eventually reaching a level of desperation. This is the good outcome; other people find medications that are more and more potent, and accidentally take too much— causing a fatal respiratory arrest.

Treatment Options

Until recently there was one primary treatment for this type of addiction— residential treatment for one to three months in a treatment center. Yes, another option is to attend AA or NA (Narcotics Anonymous) meetings, but meetings alone rarely make headway against opiate dependence. Another option that has been available is ‘maintenance treatment’ in a methadone program. This type of treatment carries a number of inconveniences, including the need to report to the treatment center each morning to receive the medication.

We now have a third treatment option— buprenorphine or Suboxone— that has saved countless lives. This treatment option is almost universally effective given one requirement: the person must be truly sick and tired of taking the pills and must be motivated to get better.

If you or a loved one suffers from addiction to these medications I strongly encourage you to seek out more information and to learn about your options. Life is too short to remain miserable.