Chronic Pain and Drug Addiction…please Help.?
Question by Scooter: Chronic pain and drug addiction…please help.?
I have a friend whose son takes medication for a legitimate chronic pain. He is also, unfortunately addicited to several illicit drugs, and was already a heavy drinker when he was injured. Does anyone know of a treatment facility geared to handle drug addicition and pain management. Everything here has failed. The family doctor is concerned for his life.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
The pain medication is prescribed by a doctor and is absolutely neccessary. He is under the care of competant pain management. The problem is most treatment facilities are only set up to get the drugs out of you. They aren’t set up to try and determine which ones need to really stay in you. we need advanced drug and alchohol treatment combined with pain management.
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Answer by In_the_Light
Try seeking a pain management specialist. These physicians deal with chronic pain and drug addictions daily. Many of them perform drug tests. Unfortunately, although pain medication can help pain, they can be addicting. Ask the doctor for other options besides pain medication–perhaps epidural or steroid injections. Also, if he combines exercise with medicine, maybe he will improve his condition enough to allow him to lessen the drugs he consumes. For the drinking problem, try AA.
God Bless.
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The basics as priority. Perfect mattress and silence and darkness for sleep. Food in abundance to trade scum cells for blood cells. Stay with alchohol instead of prescription drugs and smoke. Live this way a month, then ween off alchohol. To my dying day, I have never seen one known treatment thing being anything of worth. Think of the sad cases he would have to smell.
Well, for the pain,go to the hospital and see where the problem is then have a professinal doctor give you the medicine.
For the drunk problem let him know how drugs can harm and cause bad stuff for him but DO NOT ACT BY MEDICINE because a medicine is a drug + you never know what will happen
the treatment centers didnt fail.your friend did,he has to want to get off the drugs and alcohol.then and only then will treatment work.theres alot of meds that are non-narcotic and work real good.the cronic pain is just an excuse to justify the drinking and druging.i had magor surgery 8 months ago 3 days on morphine and then that was it,came home with tylenol and got through a liver transplant clean and sober,and i am a recovering alkie/and addict,who couldnt go an hour without getting high.when he hits his bottom and cant go any lower except death,then he can begin his recovery. theres lots of help out there he just has to stick his hand out and ask for it… thanks from a grateful alcoholic and addict