Prescription Narcotic Medications

I was reading the news this morning and found some really disturbing information about prescribed narcotic medications.   First let me say this, narcotic medication consists of anything from Vicodin to Morphine and everything in between.  It MUST be prescribed by a licensed medical doctor.   Physician Assistants cannot write a prescription for a narcotic medication, though they certainly can write other prescriptions.

Are you ready for this?  It blew me away, I hope it does you as well.  The overdose rate of prescription drugs is 4 times higher than it was this time ten years ago.
Narcotic prescriptions are now prescribed 4 times more often than ten years ago.
The law enforcement agency states that narcotic prescription drug overdoses is now an epidemic.  They go on to say that it is the most serious public safety threat the law enforcement faces.


Did you get all of that?   Did you allow it to sink in because if you are living with chronic pain odds are you are taking a narcotic drug!    Please, I beg you as someone who has almost accidentally overdosed herself,  please pay attention to this!!!   This stuff can kill you even if you don't intend for it to do so!


The doctor went on to say that five years ago they were taught in medical school that even patients taking narcotics for short periods of time could not get addicted but they've since discovered that they were wrong!


You may need narcotic medications from time to time, but please, please, please I beg you look for alternative means of dealing with your pain.   There are numerous holistic healing treatments out there.  Massage therapy, Acupuncture has been proven and is listed by the American Institute of Health as being effective for the treatment of chronic pain, the same for Reiki (Ray-key), a gentle healing touch.  Cranial Sacral therapy is quite effective.   I could go on and on.   Do you know one of the most important things you can do to help with your pain?   Go off of sugar!  


Got knee or low back pain?  Lose weight!


We've become such a nation of pill poppers that we don't even think about what they do to us!   You are  worth trying other means of pain management!   How about PRAYER!  MEDITATION!


I care about you!   Do you care about yourself???


Peace be unto you.