Before the widespread use of prescription pain medications as a back pain relief medicine, drug addiction was perceived as something reserved for habitual users abusing illegal drugs such as heroin. Due to the over-prescribed category of painkillers known as opioids, however, drug addiction is mainstream and anyone who is prescribed pain medication for back pain is a candidate for addiction. The problem is so se...
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Important information about these legal but dangerous medications. The statistics for America's opioid epidemic are astonishing: Approximately 68% of the 70,200 documented drug overdose deaths in 2017 involved an opioid. That is six times higher than in 1999. America's skyrocketing opioid epidemic is due to the highly addictive nature of these dangerous drugs. The irony of the epidemic is that the spike in opioi...
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The strongest pain killer known to man is not a single drug, but a group of drugs known as "opioids," which have a high risk of addiction and dependence. The opioid group includes morphine, oxycodone, fentanyl, buprenorphine, and several others. These medications are used as back pain remedies and are commonly prescribed by doctors for extreme lower back pain relief, as well as many other conditions. These power...
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1. What is mindfulness in the context of arthritis pain as well as other forms of pain? What is its importance to patients with chronic conditions? In the context of pain, mindfulness is a state of mind which enables one to step back and simply observe, without judgment, how one’s mind, and body are behaving at the moment. As a consequence, one can separate pain-a purely physiological response to a noxious sti...
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