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Patients caution lawmakers about role of pain medications
By Colleen Quinn State House News Service BOSTON — People coping with chronic pain cautioned lawmakers, looking for solutions to opiate-addiction problems, not to make pain medications so difficult to obtain that those who truly need them
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Are doctors to blame for opiate addiction epidemic? CDC reports doctors are a leading source of opioids for high-risk …
LOS ANGELES, April 24, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — One of the most common misconceptions about men and women who abuse prescription opioid drugs is that they get those drugs from friends or relatives. Now, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has revealed alarming new evidence that those at highest risk of opioid overdose are just as likely to obtain opiate drugs from …
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'We're all paying:' Heroin spreads misery in US
The staff's quick response and a dose of naloxone, an opiate-reversing drug, bring most patients back. Some are put … My next-door neighbor's on heroin,'" says Candy Murray Abbott, who helped her own 27-year-old son through withdrawal. Heroin-related …
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Approval of drug is long overdue
Narcon can counter overdoses of opiates including heroin, morphine, oxycodone (Oxycontin), methadone, hydrocodone (Vicodin), codeine and other prescription pain medications; but it is not helpful with overdoses from other drugs. The effects of Narcon …
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Painkillers and heroin; on the road to addiction
I have read with great interest, concern and self reflection recently about the alarming use of opioid pain medications leading to heroin use and consequent overdoses causing the deaths of many of the users.
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Action needed to fight heroin epidemic
For most people the subject of heroin is not an issue at the top of their household concerns. As with many things, if an issue does not affect you directly its priority is diminished. That is not a statement of condemnation, merely a reality that each of…
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How Pakistan succumbed to a hard-drug epidemic
Almost 30 years after first reporting on Pakistan's then nascent North West Frontier heroin trade, David Browne returns to find a city – and a country – in the grip of mass drug addiction        
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Vikings great Robert Smith meets alcoholism head-on
His father had problems with alcohol, heroin and cocaine and spent time in prison on drug charges. His mother battled …. Your body is kind of going through withdrawals," Smith said. "So you'd get to the … "And my wife was pregnant again (with Grayson).
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Our view: Addiction puts infants at risk
… withdrawals associated with narcotic pain medications. From 2000 to 2010, there was a fivefold increase in the number of pregnant women who used or abused opiates, with these mothers accounting for 5.6 out of 1,000 hospital births annually …
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What I learned from a week in the Alcoa psych ward
I met a federal bounty hunter; a participant in the 1960s' race riots; a man recently laid off from work; an elderly lady whose power of attorney was leveraged against her; an English major deep in debt; a pregnant woman withdrawing from heroin; a well …
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Veterans with PTSD can often become addicted to the very pain medications …
Once cut off from pain meds, many Veterans and other pain medication addicts have been turning to illegal street heroin to avoid painful detoxification and to continue to "feel good" i.e. to "get high!" Below is an article from The Wall Street Journal …
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Question by Cricket: In a few weeks I’m going to detox from opiates at home. Any advice or tips would be greatly appreciated. HELP!?
I have been battling this addiction for over 4 years now. I started out taking a 1/2 of a 500mg vicodin once a week, just when I got a really bad tension headache. I quickly realized I felt “good” when I took them, so gradually started taking more often. That continued for about a year & a 1/2. Then I got pregnant. I was able to stop cold turkey, however I did take a total of about 5 pills throughout my whole pregnancy when aches & pains were really bad. I have always had a high tolerance for pain medications, so otc tylenol DOES NOT help me. So the minute you deliver a baby, guess what, they prescribed me a shiny new rx for darvocet. So since the day my baby was born in Aug. of ’07, I have not had 1 clean day. I have extreme depression, & little to no help or support from my husband. The pills make me feel not so sad, & gave me the energy I needed to “handle my business”. Over time my habit has increased tremendously..& I’m now taking at least 20 10/325mg Norco daily. I do have my own rx, but that lasts me all of 4 or 5 days, so then I start my “hunt” for a score. I buy 4 different peoples rx’s & am spending over $ 700 monthly on just the pills. Not to mention that while I’m on pills I smoke a pack a day, drink red bull & Starbucks like there’s no tomorrow, & have manic shopping habits. I have NO self control. My habit is costing my family everything we have. We can longer pay our bills, & my kids don’t have a mommy. The energy the pills used to give me went away a long time ago, now I barely have the motivation to shower. I can’t live like this anymore.
I have hit my bottom, & I HAVE to quit.
We can’t afford rehab, & my husband makes to much $ $ to qualify for any special “scholarships”…so basically I’m screwed. The other night I decided to talk to my G’pa about helping us to pay for a detox program. It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do. My G’pa thinks so highly of me, & to tell him that I’m a drug addict was so painful. He has bailed us out sooooo many times financially in the past, he just can’t afford to pay for it. I should’ve asked him for help a long time ago…but…woulda, coulda, shoulda isn’t going to help now.
So I basically “told on myself” so now I have no other option BUT to quit. Since I can’t afford to pay for rehab, I have to do this at home. The plan is, my mom & husband are going to take a week off work & basically nurse me back to health…but I’m SCARED!!! I’ve heard so many horror stories.
I’m writing this in hopes that someone out there has some advice for me. I’m terified of the pain, diahrrea, nausea, bone aches, insomnia…all of it. I’ve read all these “recipes” that are supposed to help with wd symptoms, but believe it or not, I’m scared of taking drugs…I know funny right. I would like to be able to do this with ibuprofen, tylenol pm, immodium, & hot baths….but is that just ridiculous for me to even think that possible?? I don’t want to use suboxyn, or valium or any other substance to wd because my addictive personality will become addicted to them..I just know it.
If anyone out there has any advice for me..PLEASE help. I’m planning to do this the week after Thanksgiving, I would like to be back to my normal self by Christmas.    Read more...