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How Addiction Happens: Prescription Pain Medication Addiction Prevalent Among Chronic Pain Patients – Newswise (press release)

Prescription Pain Medication Addiction Prevalent Among Chronic Pain Patients Newswise (press release) The study states that pain medication addiction often happens in people under 65, with a history of opioid abuse, withdrawal symptoms and substance abuse treatment. Risk factors for severe pain medication addiction also include a history of anti-social …

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How Addiction Happens: Carl Edwards, a superhero with an addiction to Subway sandwiches – Yahoo! Sports (blog)

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Read more... Carl Edwards, a superhero with an addiction to Subway sandwiches Yahoo! Sports (blog) But if you've got to get somewhere fast, who better to get you there than a NASCAR driver who happens to be hanging out in full firesuit? What luck! They jump in Carl's ride and drive straight into a superhero/talking-gorilla fight! Really! …

Addiction Rehab: Eric Dane Enters Rehab to Treat Medication Addiction – AceShowbiz
” Grey’s Anatomy ” star and dad-to-be Eric Dane has checked into rehab clinic. He voluntarily entered The Hills Treatment Center in Los Angeles for a 30-day stint last month to prevent him from getting addicted to pain medication. “Actor Eric Dane …
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Addiction Rehab: The Most Successful Alternative Alcohol Rehab Facility In The Nation – Transworld News
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Addiction Rehab: No quick fix to Florida’s pill problem – MyFox Tampa Bay
Addicts are more desperate. In many cases, they don’t know how to get help. “I would certainly expect there to be a lot more attention on making rehab or detox programs more available — more programs to contact those people that were going to pill mills …
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Among most people, morphine is often associated with extreme cases of pain and soothing pain relief, primarily because the drug is used as a pain killer. It has found particular use in hospitals as an element of the post-surgery treatment process, helping patients take their minds off the pain that comes after the procedure has been completed and the anesthetic wears off.

Being one of the most potent pain relief drugs known to medical science, something like morphine is naturally not treated lightly and only used when the situation calls for it. Some experts that advocate non-narcotic pain killers for post-surgery patients admit that there are really no effective alternatives to morphine, due to the drug’s sheer potency. However, for a few hundred to a few thousand addicts around the world, morphine is just another way to get a fix.    Read more...

Addiction Rehab: Overcoming Addictions: When AA, Rehab, Medication and Psychotherapy Fail

Whether you are struggling with addiction or know someone who is, this book will help you to understand how to move forward when all paths seem blocked or pointless. A guide to recovery as well as a beautiful story of triumph and accomplishment, this book brings the warm light of wisdom to the harsh realities of addiction. “From Death Do I Part” is a book you will return to again and again as you reflect on its healing words. AVAILABLE NOW, July 26, 2010 www.fromdeathdoipart.com This is a NON-AA book. Stay tuned, I will be uploading excerpts, links and updates. Foreword for “From Death Do I Part” by Dr. Stanton Peele, an internationally recognized addiction expert. His books include 7 Tools to Beat Addiction and Love and Addiction.
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Question by DesiDani: How can doctors stop the “pain medication addiction”?
At work lots of people going through detox are for pain meds such as oxycontin and lortab etc. Most times, if you look at their charts there was a previous injury such as a back or whatever. A nurse told me that pts will get pain meds to stop the pain, and when they get home they cannot get that some dosage outside. So you will have the “frequent flyers” to the hospital.

So how can doctors lessen someones pain, without them becoming dependent?

What can doctors and nurses do about “clock watchers”?
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Detox centers would be great, but isn’t that after the problem has arised?

How about placing a regulated limit on the dosage amt a dr. can order for a pt.

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