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 thebaine include buprenorphine, oxycodone, oxymorphone (Opana), naloxone, naltrexone.

Although not used medicinally, thebaine is a restricted drug due to its potential to be used as a base for the manufacture of a wide range of opioid drugs.

There is a third group of opioid drugs – that perhaps should be top of the list – and these are the endogenous opioids found in the body, that promote pain relief and healing.

The word opioid is of a relatively new invention. The true opiates are those substances that provide pain relief, found naturally in the body, that include endorphins, enkephalins and dynorphin.

Other natural opiates are the substances to found in opium poppy latex that imitate closely the function and capabilities of the endogenous opiates. The third catagory contains those opioid drugs that are synthetic or semi-synthetic - manufactured by man to resemble the opiates. Used medicinally by medical doctors, they cause us no end of trouble.

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For example low dose naltrexone is being hailed for its benefits to health. A naltrexone equivalent can be made naturally by the body.

Should not research focus on natural stimulation of this chemical – rather than drug reliance.

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Man has known for centuries that in plants there exist certain groups of phytochemicals that are similar to and related in their functions to groups of endogenous chemicals found in the human body.

For example in dark skinned fruits and the leaves of green tea there are to be found a range of phytochemicals that act as anti-oxidants and promote good health in the body when used medicinally. It is necessary to eat these substances unprocessed and raw to gain a maximum benefit. In traditional medicine, preparations of these substances have been made up as tinctures and herbals – stronger doses than in natural form, but intended for temporary therapeutic use, in which the original integrity of the substances is carefully preserved.

People speak of the resveratrol that is contained in dark grapes, and speak of the benefits of wine as containing resveratrol, a natural antioxidant. In fact the fermentation of wine creates an overload of ethyl alcohol that is toxic to the body, with minimal traces of resveratrol remaining in the final product. Resveratrol is an active substance, not easily reduced to a “drug”.

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When synthetic drugs are made – a base product such as morphine or thebaine is chemically altered to produce a synthetic imitation of any of the many “drugs” that the human body, or a plant can synthesize for itself.

Every drug that has been produced by man from the opium poppy latex has been and can be produced in the human body – heroin, buprenorphine – traces can be found made by the human body in the process of it providing natural pain relief, and or reduction of stress.

Scientists go to a lot of trouble to isolate and patent drugs – the reality is that once in the body, they all revert to a primal soup – metabolized by the body not to help with healing, metabolized by the body to assist with faster excretion of something that the body experiences as alien and toxic – that inteferes with homeostasis.

Sure we get pain relief for a while, until the body has managed to regain control, and dismantle the synthetic drug.

Oxycodone was developed to be an improvement, with less addiction, fewer bad side effects than morphine or heroin. Heroin was originally a pharmaceutical drug – said to be better than morphine. Therapeutic use of heroin was discontinued when it was shown that the first metabolite when heroin is metabolized, broken down by the body is nothing other than pure morphine.

Oxycodone is also broken down in a similar way – the first metabolite is oxymorphone – patented as Opana.

It is the endogenous painkillers in the body that naturally bind to the opiate receptors, opiate receptors being primarily found in the gastric tract, and in the central, and peripheral nervous system.

It can never be said of a natural substance precisely what function or form it will take in the maintenance of good health in the body. Virtually all biochemicals can morph at will, changing their form and their structure – the body directing precisely what part each chemical plays, changes and adjustments that take place in nanoseconds.

Natural substances in action quickly confound the scientist – stress will turn progesterone into cortisol.

Natural endorphins are similar to morphine and raise dopamine levels, providing similar pain relief. Endogenous chemicals can’t function in the context of a synthetic drug regime.

Oxycodone has always been thought to attach to mu opioid receptors – studies have shown that its function might be directed to other structures known as kappa opioid receptors, particularly in experiments with diabetic mice. If this is the case, then oxycodone provides its pain relief by relieving stress, rather than by achieving a “runner’s high”.

The bottom line is that we have become amenable to drug use, for pain relief because for various reasons, related to stress, our bodies have not been providing it at an adequate level. So happy are we to get pain relief that we don’t mind the collateral damage – that we are taught to regard as being tedious “side effects”.

Some drug side effects are beneficial – but they “shouldn’t happen” – antidepressants give pain relief, pain relievers can act as antidepressants.

Oxycodone causes constipation – doctors prescribe Targin that is oxycodone and naloxone – that provides pain relief and eases constipation.

Opioid drug use is heavy handed at best. Toxic and sometimes fatal.

Is it not time to give up synthetic opioid use, and begin to trust and develop natural pain regulation ?

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 Oxy has been dumped - it presents an opportunity for the opening of new doors.

An article appears in the Globe and Mail – it comprehensively covers the issues involved in the big OxyContin debate. Among the facts that the article presents are that

there are an estimated 200,000 prescription drug addicts in Canada (more than illicit drug users),

there is no research on the long term effects of oxycodone use and its safety,

there were 1.5 million oxycodone prescriptions written last year – costing Canada over $150 million,

prescriptions for oxycodone rose by 80-fold since the year 2000 – that is 80 prescriptions today, for every one issued then,

doctors get their training in pain management from drug company reps,

there is no government funding for physical and psychological alternative programs for pain management.

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One of the reasons for Oxy use is chronic back pain.

Recent research from 2007, shows that there can be a “fear” response to back pain that can inhibit a person from fully exploring the full range of movement that is physically possible.

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The University of Ohio study, conducted by James S Thomas and Christopher R France, found that the study confirmed existing evidence that fear avoidance behavior is a powerful predictor of future disability, and risk of chronic pain.

This leads to a situation in which many people are called malingerers, neurotic and left untreated for the anxiety and or depression that surrounds their disability.

For some people the limitation on free movement is real – imaging reveals a physical defect that leads to restricted movement and a genuine experience of restricting pain.

Doctors faced with the “inoperable” condition do not recommend alternative treatments for regaining more mobility that require the specific skills of practitioners such as chiropractors, masseurs, and myopathic therapists. They close, rather than open new doors in best practice for the treatment of chronic pain.

In an article entitled Spinal Decompression – Comprehensive Care for Back Pain, chiropractor Dr Connie D’Astolfo presents a case study that would, in the traditional healthcare practice be consigned to drug treatment, with opioids exacerbating rather than improving the patient’s general health conditions.

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Another painful condition for which many people seek opioid relief is the condition of painful heel spurs.

Heel spurs do not cause pain but are a symptom of plantar fascilitis – an inflammed condition of the connective tissue that is best healed by stretching, rest and natural supportive conditions such as better shoes, losing weight, and a holistic approach to good health practices. Spurs will disappear with recovery from the condition, whereas pain medications tend to excerbate the situation.

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People prepared to open new doors in the field of natural pain management will find that treatments have been developed for years, often based upon ancient wisdom, that are effective, that comprehensively resolve all the issues related to conditions of chronic pain.

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Natural, holisitc treatments for headaches, migraines and pain in any part of the body can provide safe and effective recovery, without the use of drugs. Further enquiry into any long term pain condition will reveal the “fear” of change, of setting out into the unknown, that is fostered by a drug mentality.

Life without Oxy can give us the chance to open new doors and perhaps get rid of our pain forever.

The issue of chronic pain management has been complicated by the fact that drugs such as OxyContin, used for chronic pain also are addictive.

Oxycodone withdrawal tends to cause symptoms of hyperanxiety, muscle spasms, stomach cramps, sweating and insomnia. This is a “rebound” effect from the depressed and sluggish condition that chronic opioid use causes to the body

Before people can start on natural treatments to deal with their original pain, people will need drug detox and rehab to eliminate drug symptoms.

The benefits of using a comprehensive oxycodone recovery program, such as Narconon Trois Rivieres, is that many of the treatments and methods that lead to addiction recovery also assist with relief from the causes of chronic pain.

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For example the low heat sauna treatment, intended to provide complete drug detoxification, will also provide warmth and tension reduction in painful joints and tissues, can reduce inflammation.

Exercise promotes mobility and the emphasis on good nutrition is a powerhouse for recovery.

Recovery from drug addiction and from chronic pain involves a comprehensive approach to all of the aspects of life that cause and contribute to the condition.

Drug use and pain are both symptoms of a deeper malaise – getting to roots of drug addiction and the causes of pain requires you to take a comprehensive approach – opening new doors.

Use a Narconon program to get free of drug abuse and addiction, and you are more than halfway towards complete recovery, by natural means, from chronic pain and illness.

CBC News warns in February of 2012, that the intended replacement of OxyContin, with OxyNeo in Canada, is a looming crisis - people are in fear of the consequences of OxyContin withdrawal, upon the addicted population. Others, in pain, and reliant upon OxyContin til now, wonder what alternatives to OxyNeo they can get for their symptoms of chronic pain.

Dr Meldon Kahan of St Joseph’s Health Center in Toronto says that this is a very unusual health crisis because it was generated by the medical system.

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We essentiallly have a health crisis, on our hands, at a widespread level because doctors in Canada, who treat “illness” with specific medications, to a large extent exacerbate chronic illness by using toxic medications that impede the process of natural healing, and a return to good health.

The medical system fails to understand that mental distress can cause physical symptoms, that a large component of chronic physical pain has an emotional basis, and the wider implications of this convergence in the proper treatment of chronic pain. Sure, people love their pain meds, cannot live without them – but this is coming from a place of anxiety, and tension from people denied a real opportunity to experience alternative treatments for their pain and malaise.

Marty Whittaker, who broke her back in a water skiing accident, 12 years ago is among 30,000 people in Ontario who are dependent upon OxyContin for their pain. There has been an increase in people seeking methadone in Ontario, people who know that they are addicted to Oxy but have found it to be their only means of effective pain relief.

Marty says: “I’m as dependent on OxyContin as I am on my glasses to see”.

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We could say that this represents, in a nutshell, the whole controversy about the way we go about healing the body today. We are as conditioned to believing that we need drugs for pain, as we conditioned to believe that if our eyesight is poor, we need glasses to achieve 20/20 vision.

Improving our eyesight by natural means – many books have been written. How many people have read them, or put into practice their methods, before running off to the optician for new glasses because designer frames are on discount this week.

Alongside the biblical texts of the medical profession, starting with Gray’s Anatomy, that present the definitive tao of healthcare practice today, we will find many books on authentic healthcare and practices – relegated to the “how interesting” catagory of books that we read for amusement at weekends – before getting back to the business of mainstream “living”, with its quota of medical, dental and optical appointments.

For those in a rush Ted Maser offers a 10 minute guide to better eyesight – it is clear that this speaker, who travels worldwide sees the concept of creating better eyesight in a holistic context. It is a good place to start to reflect upon the conditions of life that contribute to our poor and failing eyesight.

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Time honored methods for natural improvement of vision were designed by Bate’s dating back to 1920, when he wrote the book Perfect Sight Without Glasses. His wife edited this book such the work in modern form, first printed in 1943, is known as Better Eyesight Without Glasses.

Bate’s suffered the same repression at the hands of the medical profession as has been the fate of many. Medical science prescribed that – refractory errors of vision had unknown causes and were incurable – in fact they were “blunders of nature” that had to be fixed using glasses.

Bate’s saw another way, and his work offers people today freedom from the need to use spectacles or contact lenses – if they want to go there.

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One can easily see that in rejecting the then current theories, of deficient eyesight, the work of Bate’s had the potential to take the bread and butter off the plates of the myopic medical profession.

In the fields of pain, of addiction, of all psychosomatic disorder the medical profession has doggedly sat like a dog in the manger on top of the business of healthcare, and been instrumental in fostering ill health.

People today with pain, facing an opioid crisis need to open their eyes, with 20/20 vision and use their eyes as nature intended, to scan the whole horizon.

Cities today create limitations on the natural peripheral field, eyes get used to tunnel vision driving along the freeway of a morning, a totally different and confining activity compared with riding a horse through the open countryside.

Our eyes and bodies are under exercised to a point where we have become obese, illpostured, and unfit.

We get no help from the medical field to become the fit and healthy people that we all have the potential to be – we just get offered a “pill”.

People injured, and in pain have been sold a pup, and denied the opportunity to properly consider and evaluate drug free natural methods for recovery from pain, injury and addiction.

Narconon International has developed, since 1966, a comprehensive, drug free natural method for complete addiction recovery. Sure it has been criticized, condemned and derided – what successful natural alternative treatment method has not been.

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People with pain today, and chronic injury owe it to themselves, their families, to at least suspend their judgment, open their belief – and have a look at the opportunities to regain health, become pain free and mobile that are on offer in the wider world of drug free holistic healthcare – and to improve eyesight, naturally to 20/20 vision.

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 caused by negative thoughts and residual toxins in the body.

True freedom from Oxy and all substance abuse is a wonderful feeling, although in truth you might feel right now that your very life and security depends upon you clinging to that baggage.

To fully take advantage of the freedom of a drug free life means that you will have to give up everything that you do in your life that supports continuing pain, depression and anxiety.

You will need to give up resentment and anger directed towards the past, and have an optimistic frame of mind as you look forward into the future.

Giving up drugs and substance abuse is a complex process, for which comprehensive , residential addiction recovery programs provide effective guidelines and support.

Giving up drug use is not easy. Do the job once, and do it properly - get clean and get a life.

Narconon programs provide the key to complete addiction recovery,

a program that works to a time frame, that sets out the steps that you need to take to eliminate negativity in your mind, and drug toxicity in the body, The Narconon program eliminates any need for maintenance drugs, or follow up programs that mean your recovery is not yet complete.

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When Narconon professionals consider that you have completed the program, and you will know when you have, you will be completely free of drug dependence, and be able to move on into a happy and productive life.

The essential difference between Narconon programs and others is that your life becomes filled with the re-generative force of life.

No more ducking and diving to avoid events and people that used to trigger negative feelings, and drug taking behavior.

Narconon programs give you 100% immunity to anything you will encounter in life, that used to defeat and upset you, make you turn to drugs.

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You will learn a new approach to life, that enables you to deal with the traps and the pitfalls – to be strong, content and happy – in control of your life.

Research based on admissions to the CAMH Toronto drug programs during 2000-2004, reveals a sad and dismal pattern of increasing prescription oxycodone abuse.

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It is good to see that the government has finally put a stop to medical abuse by cutting off the funding for both Oxy and OxyNeo, leaving the patients somewhat high and dry.

Doctors have been said to prescribe as many as 200 80mg Oxy’s per fortnight for patients complaining of pain. Doctors have acted recklessly, beyond their competence, and got their patients addicted. Doctors who have refused to prescribe Oxy however, have been pathologized and held culpable by their peers of professional negligence.

Over-reliance on prescription drugs and medications is the biggest trap and pitfall that modern society has ever fallen into.

People are sadly mistaken if they believe that the pathway to health, and recovery from pain, be it emotional or physical, needs to have any involvement whatever with medication by drugs.

CAMH in Canada is the biggest provider and broker for drug based programs and behavioral methods of addiction treatment that are not recovery focused, with repeated relapse factored in as being an incentive for you to make more effort towards your addiction recovery.

Despite full recovery under these programs being an extremely rare event - people afflicted by drug addiction are encouraged to attend.

For many it simply becomes a case of exchanging the octopus of addiction, for the octopus of addiction support.

For those addicted there would seem to be no alternative but to have one octopus or the other clamped around your head.

The lucrative industry of “addiction support” is like a secondary tumor that has sprung up from our long term failure to confront the issue of drugs, and to use effective measures to eradicate from our society drug abuse and addiction to drugs.

People who want to beat drug addiction and get completely clean use the programs conducted by Narconon International, throughout the world.

There is a lot of ambivalence in the world today about dealing with drug abuse and addiction – we have been conditioned for many years to believing that drug use is the answer to our pain.

As the unresolved tensions of modern life increase our levels of pain, so inevitably does our drug use. We have to break the toxic cycle, and believe that healthy, pain free living is possible, without dependence on drugs.

But most of all we have to want to go there, throw away the crutches – be prepared to totter a while, until we find our feet.

Life today is much like being on a ship tossed around in a storm, most of the passengers sprawled out on deck, guzzling down the “Quells”. Narconon programs get you back on your feet, and help you to find the “sea legs” you need to get back on top and live a drug free life.

Drug addicted and need some help – real help that can set you free? -

Narconon is happy to take you on board it’s life raft for a while, (on average two to six months) and provide you with the drug free, natural support that enables complete drug addiction recovery.

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 provinces have made a decision to stop funding the fiasco of “Oxy on Demand”, out of the public purse. OxyNeo is still an approved drug. However, it will only be used on a restricted basis.

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OxyContin will be unfunded, and phased out, and if people choose to use OxyNeo for pain relief – then it will have to be on a doctor’s prescription, and at their own expense.

Only Alberta is going to keep on with the old tradition of public funding for Oxy, at least for the time being,with Quebec and Manitoba still undecided.

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Attempts at tampering with OxyNeo, for recreational use, in the USA since early 2010, when OxyNeo  first came onto their market, have proven that the new formulation is more or less unusable.

Drug use tends to create tunnel vision – and not only in terms of optical disturbance. People adapted to drug use, see the drying up of supply of one drug, only in terms of wondering what other drug they can use to replace it.

OxyContin is a narcotic, sleep inducing for those within a normal range of vitality, for those depressed, who feel compressed, those who are in pain, Oxycodone gives pain relief and is a euphoric stimulant until addiction sets in, after which it becomes more of a curse than a blessing.

The phasing out of OxyContin, the introduction of OxyNeo is a watershed in the context of medical pain drug administration.

Do people breathe a sigh of relief – ask their doctor to recommend, at last, a range of natural, alternative treatments for their pain,

including osteopathy, with it’s effective treatment plans that are recovery focused,

or a low heat sauna treatment using the Hubbard method - that provides full chemical detox, while soothing tension and inflammation in painful tissues and joints, relaxing to body and mind.

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Or is it a chance, an excuse to go illegal and try out illicit drugs - massive amounts of bennies, Special K, or LSD.

There’s no doubt that chronic pain can bring out the gangsta in anyone.

No more Oxy - what’s your poison – there’s plenty more drugs on the street.

No more Oxy – it’s not a tragedy – it’s time to get into focus.

What exactly is your pain problem – and ultimately - why the poison?

Who do the medical practitioners, the high ranking specialists go to when they have got a painful, potentially life threatening injury or disorder.

Do they consult with their colleagues, get ops on the cheap from their mates, get discounted pain drugs – no, – not on your Nellie Duff.

The higher their ranking, the more likely medical professionals are – to seek out and use a natural, alternative drug free remedy.

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And as for using street drugs, we all know what happens to junkies, but – what do top drug dealers use.

The answer is they don’t. Dealers who use end up broke, in the Graybar Motel, aka pokey, while circling the drain.

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If we get out of our comfort zone, and into dealing on the street, we might have to learn a whole new language – very quickly.

So, why not opt for safety first – and take up with methdone? People using methadone illicitly will find outcomes to be unpredictable, and on occasion, fatal.

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It is not widely reported, but people are also at risk of methadone death when placed on a formal program, particularly at the beginning of the treatment plan.

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If you are less than enchanted with the prospect of using “liquid hand cuffs” – that is not surprising. There is always the oxymorphone alternative – why not try opana?

Opana is an opioid drug responsibly packaged to deter abuse, quietly marketed by Endo Pharmaceuticals, for chronic pain relief, with none of the hype of Oxy.

People have complained that Opana is the ruin of their sex life, makes them feel overly sedated. Opana doesn’t get rave reviews on the popular drug sites. Nor does hydromorphone hydrochloride, aka Dilaudid.

In any case, current production problems with Opana suggest that at least for a while, Opana is not likely to be available to anyone except existing users.

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That all seems to leave no alternative, but – hello heroin.

There are no hero’s or heroine’s where heroin is involved, from Black Tar to White Lady – you pay’s your money – you take’s your hit – into ecstasy or oblivion. Don’t assume in heroin dealing that the Marquess of Queensberry rules.

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The Narconon program was founded by a heroin addict, a prisoner of misfortune, held in an Arizona prison and offered a shotgun by a guard to take away his misery. A watershed in his life, given the freedom to live or die, William Benitez chose life, and to overcome a lifetime of pain, and drug addiction.

When looking at alternatives to OxyContin, users now have total freedom.

Narconon programs in Canada offer drug free, natural, detox from drugs, and effective drug rehabilitation, that assists with reduction of pain at a physical, emotional and psychosomatic level.

Narconon provides effective detox and rehab for all OxyContin users.

Take for example the extreme emotions of anger, hate & depression – emotions that if not discharged and resolved, lead to stress and tension in various parts of the body. Prolonged stress can lead to inflammation and irritation of viscera, and is a direct cause of biochemical imbalance. Actual pain that has no apparent cause, is generally connected to emotional negativity.

The attraction of drug use is that it takes away our pain. People seek drugs for pleasure as an antidote to underlying issues of pain. Often we think of pain as being a simple response by the body to some kind of physical illness or disorder. We rarely think of pain and disorder in the body as being a form of emotional expression.

Anger, hate and depression can drive the experience of pain, and related disorder in the body. We can outwardly express our negative feelings in outbusts of crying, shouting,or hitting. When we feel constrained from “acting out”, our negative energy is directed inward, and we effectively “turn against the self” – often treating the “body” as being separate from our “mind”.

Powerless to remove or relieve the sources of tension, we beat up instead on our body. The extent to which we choose to “damage” ourselves is in direct relationship to the intensity of pressure. Tension and stress causes disorder in the body when we are constrained from relieving it, in any other way.

In our muscles and joints we can carry a lot of tension, this can lead to unhealthy postural variations, a lack of adequate breathing, cardio-vascular and digestive disorders. Diseases such as chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia and Crohn’s can be a psychosomatic symptom.

Release from the psychic bondage, brings release from the “dis-ease”.

There are many triggers for anxiety, anger and hate in the modern world, both in our personal relationships, and at a global level. There are very few opportunities for us to fully vent and express, in a meanful way, the full extent of our anxiety, anger and hate.

In an attempt to feel better, we might compromise, decide to “live with” our anxiety, anger and hate, because we do not have an ability to negotiate for anything better. This is never a good idea.

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Some people have tried to establish a direct relationship as between the experience of certain types of pain in the body – and emotional conflict. One of the most comprehensive books, and highly regarded in the field of alternative healing is the Inna Segal book – The Secret Language of your Body.

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We are all familar with the tension created by sudden anxiety, the lethargy of depression, the specific parts of the body affected when we feel anger or hate.

Many of us have submerged our “real” feelings in order to maintain a facade of contented, every day living, sometimes to appease an aggressor from whom we cannot, perhaps do not, want to escape. However, long term and unresolved emotional conflicts and issues will find a way to emerge.

Mental conflict might emerge as specific pain and tension in various parts of the body (somatic “disorders”), or as a wide range of behavioral patterns that have the specific purpose of discharging tension from the body, (psychological “disorders“).

Some people find tension release by acting out at a community level, by engaging in anti social behavior, such as expressing their frustration and anger by writing up graffiti.( social “dysfunction“).

Ultimately, extreme conflicts in the mind can cause extreme disorders of body function.

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A holistic and comprehensive approach is needed to get to the root of and provide solutions to emotional conflict, pain and related substance abuse. We might need professional, comprehensive help to deal with the huge emotional overload caused by conflicted beliefs.

Often it is those closest to us, with whom we might have the most toxic bonds, negativity feeding negatively.

Physical illness and painful symptoms can also arise from chemical toxicity - such as exposure to pollutants, plastics, and certain types of food.

PMS and menopause symptoms are an example of painful conditions that should not be medicated but need comprehensive, effective nurturing, and supportive detoxification.

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Doctors using narcotics, for physical pain “management”, have ignored the addictive potential ., and have tended to blame “addiction” on the patient, offering no real help.

The risk with drug use is that it tends to promote self-focused isolation, increasingly locking us into our “issues”and it does not contribute, in any way, to a healthy resolution of our problems.

To get to the root of and eradicate our negativity, our pain and our drug dependence, we need a fully comprehensive treatment program that has the power to enable a complete separation between “us”, and our drug use, so that we can begin to deal with our emotions and conflicts.

Choosing a fully comprehensive program that enables complete detoxification from drugs, that enables us to experience and feel the causes of our pain, in a supported and safe environment, enables us to work with the issues, and to become healthy again.

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Comprehensive alcohol and drug abuse programs enable us to fully separate from the habitual and compulsive behaviors that we use to mask and “live with” our feelings of negativity.

There is a world outside the self imposed box of negativity, pain and drug use – that invites you to come out – and participate in real self empowerment, contentment and happiness.

Comprehensive drug programs enable people to rebuild genuine self esteem, and take away away our attachment to all negativity in in our life.

Graduates of comprehensive drug programs have a positive, and constructive approach to living a new drug free and happy life – regaining the will to live.

When doctors were mandated to consider “pain management” as an ancilliary treatment, they have been happy enough to consult a pain management directory of assorted drugs, and to make a selection.

By using authorized, prescription drugs, doctors, in one move, have been able to get rid of the pain in their patient, and the problem that they have to deal with – “pain management” in society.

Addiction, deaths and dependency, inadequate coverage of pain has been the inevitable consequence of this inappropriate, but politically sanctioned “stab in the dark” at the broad and complex field of pain treatment, healing and recovery.

Doctors are not to blame. This responsibility for “pain management” was somewhat thrust upon them, making pain management their professional duty and obligation, a task for which most doctors, by their training were singularly ill equipped.

Not many doctors knew much about pain, not many knew much about the available drugs.

No doctors in terms of their medical school training had any expertise whatsoever in preventative and alternative pain treatments, relief and healing, as being preferable to pain “management”.

Like ducks to the water, like lambs to the slaughter – people came in with their pain, and got given a painkilling drug by their doctor – and everyone was happy.

As soon as addiction, deaths and dependency, and lack of effective pain relief became “live” issues in the management of pain, everyone involved in the “drug regime” has gone ducking for cover. In truth, narcotics for general use should never have been approved.

Funding for pain management should have been redirected towards the development of drug free natural options – that enable the causes of pain to be explored, that enable pain recovery by the enhancement of good health and healing.

Instead we fester and suffer on under a narcotic drug regime, that indoctrinates people, both patients and doctors, into believing that if you have pain, you need an opiate drug.

You can overdose on and become addicted to OxyContin when using it as prescribed, it will depend on the integrity, experience and drug awareness of your prescribing doctor. If this occurs, you will bear the consequences. It is highly unlkely that a prescribing doctor will be reprimanded at all. You are expected to put up with side effects, on the basis, that all drugs come with those.

You will not be fully informed about, or encouraged to use non-narcotic, natural alternatives to drugs, as a primary means of treatment and possible recovery from your pain, when you see a doctor who operates under government funded health care and pain “management” options.

You will simply be re-assured about the efficacy of drugs, and prescribed some new variation to your pain medication, if it seems to be causing complications. You don’t have many options in the context of an enforced drug regime.

There are many people today, on drugs, in pain, who are deeply dissatisified with their outcome – the drugs have failed to live up to their promise, of painfree, happy living, the patient has failed to achieve recovery from his pain. Life appears to be more of an endurance trial, than happy, contented living.

This scenario can apply to people who take prescription drugs for their physical pain, it can also apply to those who take antidepressants and similar medications to overcome emotional.pain.

You would think that people in such circumstances would welcome, listen to and evaluate any suggestion, by anyone that might alleviate their condition. But the answer is often that many people in pain, dependent upon, yet unhappy with their drug taking, impulsively lash out at, and reject any suggestion that they need to reconsider and implement a more healthy lifestyle.

The truth is that such people are often depressed. They have had enough troubles in their life, and have had enough of their troubles.

The pain they now endure, really is the last straw – all that they want, is for all of the pain that they have, to be completely taken away. Drugs appear to be and are promoted as being their best option.

Using drugs brings a sense of empowerment, over painful life experiences, to people who are depressed. Drug use does bring relief of a sort, but it is an illusion of control.

Depression is a cause of pain, and pain a cause of depression. People locked into this cycle, by the dead hand of drug dependence, often don’t want to get out. They know that they are on the road to nowhere, but feel it is too hard to get out.

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Giving up drugs will expose them to the full force of a pain that they simply do not want to suffer from, or to deal with any more.

People is such a situation have the option, to remain with the status quo – their depression, their drugs, and their pain.

Or they can choose a fully comprehensive addiction recovery program that enables complete detoxification from drugs, that enables us to experience and feel the causes of our pain, in a supported and safe environment, that enables us to work with the issues, and to become healthy again.

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There is a world outside the self imposed box of negativity, pain and drug use - that invites you to come out – and participate in real self empowerment, contentment and happiness.

Graduates of comprehensive drug programs have a positive, and constructive approach to living a new drug free and happy life.

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 over prescribers of Oxy – lived and worked in Florida.

Now there are only 13.

The result has been relative peace and tranquility for law enforcement officers in Florida. It is now much easier for them to spot incidences of oxycodone overprescription and so keep a lid on the Oxy problem in Florida.

There has been a reduction of 97% in sales of oxycodone to doctors in Florida since 2010. There has been a similar decline – a reduction of 29% of oxycodone purchases from Florida pharmacies.

There have been two recent prosecutions of over prescribing doctors – one sentenced to 25 years in prison and another charged with alleged opioid prescription offences arising out of having prescribed for patients more than 250,000 oxycodone pills over a period of eight months.

As from September of last year, pharmacies in Florida are required to fully track the issuing of opioid pain killers on prescription, which means that people can no longer get an oversupply of painkillers by going to different pharmacies.

Although it would appear that the problem of Florida pill mills, and the human misery that they incite has largely been resolved, what is not resolved by this tightening up of the relevant legislation is the fundamental issue of continued drug addiction.

Florida law officers report, and perhaps it is no surprise – increasing numbers of over prescribing pill mill doctors have now set up shop in neighboring States, such as Tennessee and Georgia.

It is also said that some Oxy addicts in Florida, are travelling as far as Canada to get supplies of Oxy.

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The downside of this Florida success is that we are now getting reports from States such as Georgia that with the new legislation in Florida – recognized pill mills in Georgia rose from 40 to nearly 90 by the end of last year.

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Georgia will not be able to get an efficient new drug database up and running until around 2013, although the State has already put new legislation in place.

The State of Tennessee has also passed pill mill legislation early in the New Year, hopeful that it will give them the edge over the new influx of oversupplying pill mill doctors.

It might be thought that the answer is as easy as spreading the Florida model for prescription drug reporting so that the whole of America is “tight” with new legislation – effectively preventing the average person from abusing the system.

However, if the solution to drug addiction was to be found in making laws about it, no doubt we would have overcome the problem, won the war on drugs, many years ago.

The reality is that if, prescription oxycodone in illicit doses ever becomes too hard to get hold of, opioid addicts will respond by seeking alternatives, with heroin a drug of choice because of it’s relatively low price, and easy availability.

Meanwhile, people such as the Governor of Kentucky speak out in public about the scourge of oxycodone drug products, at meetings such as the recently held Kentucky Prescription Drug Abuse Summit. In Kentucky, painkiller prescription drug deaths, of around 1,000 per year, outnumber fatalities due to motor vehicle accidents.

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In the article, recovering war veteran, Dustin Gross, aged 26, says that with the help of Veteran’s Affairs, he recovered from the degradation that he suffered as a prescription drug addict, now saying that what addicts in Kentucky need most is hope. Gross is now studying bio-engineering.

It would appear that while hope is a factor in addiction recovery – help and opportunity to make something good ‘happen” play an equal part, enabling a person to become drug free –  constructive,  contented and happy.

The other side of the coin is that nearly 10% of Kentucky Grade 12 kids have illicitly used a prescription narcotic in the past month, just a few of the 7 million Americans today who regularly use prescription medication as a recreational drug.

With Kentucky setting aside a sum of $7.8 million to be spent over two years on a Medicaid program for adults and children suffering from addiction, and further money being injected into KASPER, the Kentucky drug monitoring data base, it could be time to rethink the entire medical model of drug addiction as being a cause of pain and lost opportunity in life.

Perhaps the reason why some people in a population turn to drug use and stay with it, is that they already have pain, and disillusionment, a lack of opportunity in their life. They use drugs simply because they see in drug use their only hope of feeling “better”.

Drug addiction is at the end of the day a psycho-social disorder, from which people can achieve recovery, given appropriate support.

Comprehensive alcohol and drug addiction programs understand the feelings of people who have turned to drugs – have a capacity to re-enable motivation and hope of a better life.

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Graduates of comprehensive addiction recovery program come out drug free, with no cravings. People concerned about the pain and suffering inflicted by prescription drug abuse may need to re-evaluate their attitude and approach to drug abuse and addiction.

If drug addiction seen, not as a cause of problems in life, but as a self help remedy to resolve them, then it becomes clearer – that an effective public response to widespread drug abuse is to support and enhance drug resilience in the individual.

Comprehensive recovery based addiction programs have a track record of success.

People affected by prescription drug addiction regain hope as they progress with the courses, and return to the community – drug free, productive and happy

We are very much conditioned to think of pain relief in terms of using an OTC drug or prescription medication. We think of natural pain relief as being a herbal remedy, to be found in packaged doses at a health store, intended to be used more or less as a medication.

Doctors tend to think in terms of surgical intervention and drug use for the treatment of pain, and both can inhibit our natural healing capacity.

Traditional healthcare has pathologized pain, seeing it as being something that we do not want, don’t want to work through, or understand. Pain is regarded as a medical condition to be treated with drugs, medicated away.

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Many feel that an absence of pain means health, or at least a capacity to soldier on.

True healing brings an absence of pain – because we have taken the time to understand the meaning of our pain – and worked to resolve its causes. In our haste to get pain relief we miss an opportunity to understand that pain is only a messenger – the delivery of a message that something, somewhere is not “well”, and is in need of healing.

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Whether our pain is physical or caused by emotional tension, there will be natural methods that we can use to help mind and body to heal.

Physical pain and emotional distress are intertwined.

Emotional distress causes physical “symptoms”, physical symptoms such as pain cause psychological distress. Pain can be intensified by our emotional response to it.

Some insight into this intricate situation is provided by an unexpected side effect of antidepressant drugs.

Whereas painkilling drugs have long been known to have antidepressant effects, doctors are now finding that some types of antidepressant drugs provide effective pain relief.

The experience of “pain” is highly subjective – and is affected by many factors.

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The main arguments in favor of using drugs for pain relief are based on extreme cases. When pain is acute and unbearable – drugs are put up as being the only humane option to provide respite, and dignity. There are many pain drugs available to ease the daily stress of living.

The main reason why we choose to use drugs of any kind, for pain relief, in preference to resolving, correcting what is causing the pain is that we feel overwhelmed and powerless to do otherwise than use drugs to overcome and deal with our pain.

At a psychological level, we don’t have the life skills, the hope and resilience to best resolve the causes of our pain - all we want is pain relief so that we can get on with living.

What we fail to understand in our dialogue with pain, is that it is our chosen way of living that defines our experience of pain.

Exploring the relationship between lifestyle, stress, and pain is a road less travelled. Some will refuse to go there. Pain is something beyond our control – and we need drugs to cure it.

An article on Spine Health is thoughtfully put together by Stephanie, with a list of pain relievers that are both natural and easy – that release your inner endorphins, for natural pain reduction.

Good food and good company – laughter is said to be the best medicine. Heat packs, cold packs have their benefits and bring symptomatic relief from muscular sprains, period pains, and headaches.

You can get movement and activity back into your life – with exercise, massage and joint mobilization techniques. Although it might be painful at first, the creaks and groans of exercise or subtle feelings of tension release brought on by a chiropractor are often the first symptom of regeneration and healing.

Getting outdoors brings the benefits of oxygenating the body, sunlight helps to bring healing, and can relieve depression. Getting out and about gives us an opportunity for new relationships and new ideas.

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Sometimes rest, more sleep, deep relaxation is appropriate for pain – enabling natural healing to happen at a physical and emotional level.

Help for emotional pain can come through guided imagery, meditation, some people use hypnosis. We can also use techniques to realign our energy – pilates or acupuncture. – and last but not least – we need to make sure that we are getting enough quality sleep, exercise and nutrition.

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Genuine natural pain relief is provided in a holistic context. Holistic healthcare methods use complementary healing techniques so as to mobilise body resources, raise awareness, and energy levels -  use methods that enhance overall “wellness” in a person.

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Dealing with pain by natural methods means giving up drug use, and usng a comprehensive approach to the complete resolution of what is causing the pain.

There are many types of natural help that people can use for pain relief in order to bring an end to physical and mental suffering.

The more we are willing to look beyond our pain and see it in perspective, the more in control we will feel.

Understanding and resolving our pain, using the comprehensive Narconon program brings total freedom from drug use and from drug addiction.

Firstly, there is the widely held belief that synthetic narcotic opioids offer the only effective pain relief to both the terminally ill, and those in chronic pain. People need narcotic pain relief, and this should not be denied them.

Secondly, when opioid narcotics are used as prescribed there is no risk of physical or psychological dependence, addiction or overdose. Use your painkillers as prescribed, and everything will be fine.

Thirdly, as no one dies or suffers an adverse reaction when using narcotics as prescribed, any one who dies or suffers an adverse reaction must have, in some way, done the wrong thing, and so is the author of their own misfortune.

The DEA mounted a challenge to this stone wall position against responsibility or liability when it re-examined toxicology statistics for oxycodone, and specifically OxyContin as a cause of death. The results demonstrated, in absence of better data to work from, that OxyContin was associated with 15%, and was a most probable factor in 49% of 949 oxycodone related deaths.

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Although the DEA report specifically found that polydrug toxicologies, in many of the victims – does not minimize the significance of the role of OxyContin in these deaths, industry used the polydrug findings to support a position that the only abuse of OxyContin occured at the hand of the user.

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Since 2002,  official inquiries into deaths and adverse reactions from use of opioid drugs have tended to follow the line that they are inquiries designed to investigate illicit abuse of prescription drugs, deflecting attention from due inquiry into the possiblity of prescription drugs used as prescribed being a direct cause of many fatal and unintentional prescription narcotics overdoses.

In groundbreaking work, by both  Dr Dhalla and Dr Korff a new picture has begun to emerge.

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Dr Dhalla has been responsible for independent research that deals with clustering. He identifies a relationship between having a prescription issued by a doctor in the top bracket for numbers of prescriptions issued for opioid painkillers, and being someone who dies of opioid related causes.

Variations in prescribing, at the level of the individual doctor, appear to be related to opioid related mortality.

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The risk of overdose from prescription opioids increases with the dose prescribed according to a report cited by Functional Diagnostic Nutrition. Not only are higher doses more risky, but they would appear to contribute little, if anything at all, to increased pain relief.

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Dr Korff of the Group Health Research Institute, established since 1947 for research and development of better traditional healthcare, has conducted research that takes the focus off the war on illicit drugs, bringing attention directly to the increasing problem of narcotic drugs, issued on prescription.

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Blanket statements that have been made that suggest narcotics are safe to use when issued on prescription fail to take into account that prior to 2010, doctors generally had no care plans, no specific training in pain management or addiction issues, and were widely divergent in their individual approaches to appropriate prescribing for chronic pain in their patients.

Although the incidence of illicit use occurs with opioid drug prescription, indications are that the majority of prescription users of opioid pain drugs do not use drugs other than as prescribed, and that the incidence of prescription painkillers available on the street, is proportionate to levels of prescription by authorizing doctors.

Less than 4% of prescription narcotics abusers obtain their supply from a dealer or a stranger – it is family, friends and the local doctor who facilitate supply of prescription narcotics in around 96% of cases.

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Independent alcohol and drug addiction recovery specialist, Narconon International has been contributing to the availablity of information, in this field, for the purpose of increasing public awareness of the risks of using narcotics, whether on prescription or illicitly and welcomes the further initiatives that enable progress towards better solutions in pain management for all.

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Narconon holds to a  strictly no drugs policy in the area of addiction recovery, supported by current medical opinion that not all pain is bad, nor should it be thought of being always in need of automatic medication. Using methods that enable the body to fully mobilize endogenous biochemicals for pain management and recovery of good health is ethical and causes no harm – in fact generates in the body a vast potential energy for recovery from drug abuse and addiction, and co-morbid disorders of mind and body.

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The answer for those who are seeking to find the truth about drug use is that all drugs cause harm to the body, at different levels of toxicity.

To get clean from drugs, recover good health and become free of drug addiction – people need to rethink their entire approach to drug use in healthcare today, and in addiction recovery.