OxyNeo and OxyContin – Why use Opioid Drugs?

Natural opioid drugs are to be found in the latex of the opium poppy. Opium poppy latex contains varying amounts of morphine, codeine and thebaine. OxyContin and OxyNeo that contain oxycodone as their active ingredient, are synthetic opioid drugs, manufactured from thebaine. Other synthetic opioids made from...

Life – Without OxyContin – Opening New Doors

Since 1996, OxyContin has been the drug of choice for instant,chronic pain relief. No one until now imagined what life without OxyContin might be. There is fear, confusion, distress and a desire to urgently find a drug alternative. For those however who are prepared to sit back, and consider why it is that...

OxyContin: Alternatives to OxyNeo and 20/20 vision

OxyContin has been on the market since 1996, and in hindsight, which always seems to offer 20/20 vision – people would be far better off, if it had never happened. CBC News warns in February of 2012, that the intended replacement of OxyContin, with OxyNeo in Canada, is a looming crisis - people are in...

OxyContin: Get Clean and Get a Life!

People who have been enmeshed in OxyContin addiction need to get clean and get a life. Opioid highs are nothing compared to the highs that come with real life achievement, and the natural management of pain. Getting clean means getting free of negative thoughts and reasoning, and having no fear of relapse...

OxyContin – Hello Heroin – What’s your Poison?

As from 1 March 2012, OxyContin as we know it, will be replaced by prescription OxyNeo in Canada. OxyContin has been the mainstay, a king pin in the medical war against pain for around fifteen years, despite having limited efficacy in long term pain relief, and a high addictive potential. Some Canadian...

OxyContin – The Will to Live

People seriously underestimate the power of the will to live – or die, and the extent to which the thoughts of the mind, can empower and energize the body – or entrap it deep in pain, despair and disorder, and drug use such as OxyContin. Take for example the extreme emotions of anger, hate &...

OxyContin – The Management of Pain

OxyContin, as a painkiller drug is widely used, and promoted for the management of pain. Until recently, doctors have tended to ignore the issue of pain, when treating physical disorders in their patients. When doctors were mandated to consider “pain management” as an ancilliary treatment, they...

Florida, Pill Mills and OxyContin Abuse

The latest news on pill mills in Florida is that doctors in the habit of over prescribing OxyContin, are leaving Florida in droves. Florida has recently introduced strict laws around the prescription and sale of OxyContin pills. In 2010, the DEA reported that 90 of the top 100 doctors who were known to be...

Natural Pain Relief, Part I – Overview

One of the reasons why people stay with painkilling drugs, such as OxyContin, despite severe side effects, a lack of efficacy due to tolerance, and the risk of addiction is that people do not believe, are not aware of the fact that there are natural – and effective – non drug alternatives...

OxyContin – In Search of the Truth

For many years, manufacturers of opioid narcotic painkillers have fostered three beliefs in the minds of the general public that have enabled them to continue to ply their trade without effective sanction or censure. Firstly, there is the widely held belief that synthetic narcotic opioids offer the only...