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Depression, Chronic Pain & Opioid Misuse
Learn how opioids can lead to depression, how depression worsens pain and what to do when you have both pain and depression.
Opioid Risk Factors. How Pain Can Lead to Addiction. Assess Your Risks!
Should you take opioids? Pain and addiction go hand-in-hand. Learn why pain ups addiction risks and who’s most at risk to develop a problem.
Addiction Treatment Options for Opioid Addicted Chronic Pain Patients
Three opioid addiction treatment options for people with chronic pain – including options for people who still need opioids for analgesia.
In Recovery and in Pain? Should You Take Addictive Pain Pills?
Addictive pain medications pose a real threat to anyone in recovery, but then, so does chronic and untreated pain. Learn of drug-free pain management strategies, and a safer way to take narcotic drugs.
In Recovery: Dealing with Surgery or Hospitalization and Addictive Medications
Most medical professionals receive very little training in addictions so you need to protect your own recovery. You may need addictive medications. Make sure to consider the risks, ask the right questions and advocate for yourself.
Understand Pain Self Management – 14 Ways to Take Control of Pain
Read on to learn how to reduce pain and disability, avoid mental illness and achieve greater quality of life.
Use Opioids for Chronic Pain? Make Sure You Can Answer the Following 10 Questions
Don't consider (continue) chronic opioid therapy unless you can answer the following 10 questions.
Reduce Your Opioid Use - 42 Pain Management Alternatives to Consider
Worried about taking opioids or wondering how you’ll manage pain without them? Here are 42 largely side-effect free pain interventions to try.
Ease Chronic Pain with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Changing your thinking can make a huge difference to your outlook, mood and disability level. CBT is research proven and gets you results in a hurry.
Self Test: How Much Does Pain Affect Your Quality of Life?
Does your pain limit your quality of life severely enough to warrant opioid treatment? If on opioids, do they improve your quality of life enough to justify their risks? Test yourself to find out.
Pain Catastrophizing – Does Your Negative Attitude Worsen Your Pain?
In pain? Your attitude predicts more about your long-term chances of future pain and disability than your disease or your current pain level.
Vicodin Addiction – Pain Management during Opiate Tapering
Tips for controlling chronic pain while tapering off Vicodin, such as: an example tapering schedule, experts that can help, alternate forms of analgesia, helpful lifestyle changes and more.
Treating Acute or Chronic Pain While on Suboxone
Pain often leads to pain medication – which too often leads to addiction – but what do you do when trying to overcome an opiate addiction but still have need for acute or chronic pain management? Here is a brief guide to treating pain while on Suboxone.
Does Swearing Make You Feel Better, and Can You Get Addicted to Swearing?
Recent research shows that swearing and cursing actually relieve pain. Should we use it and does that make it a good thing? Maybe it is like a narcotic. Here's a way to understand this and to begin to think of other ways to relieve pain.