Up until this point, many of my blog posts discussed various psychological aspects of quitting opiates and getting through withdrawal. However, starting with my recent post on “The Art of Opiate Tapering”, I’ve decided to discuss more pragmatic aspects of taking your first step off of opiates....
To be perfectly honest, I’m shocked at the amount of people who are looking for...
Of course I get a lot of emails. I get emails from a multitude of folks from every state, every profession and demographic.
In fact I get some emails that range from the simple “Does it work?” to the sublime “THE ROOF TOP IS LATE ON THE SALAD!”
However, without question the one subject that is far and away the most popular is the “How Should I taper?”...
I applaud this psychiatrist for calling out his colleagues. It will do little good until real legislation is passed to re-schedule certain painkillers. However, it’s well written and accurate. the other thing that is truly important for visitors to this site to understand that MOST of these deaths are accidental. These are not suicides for the most part; they are people making mistakes with...
Although rudimentary to some; many people are surprised, shocked and even embarrassed when they first experience opiate withdrawal. The first time I suffered from opiate withdrawal, I had NO CLUE what was going on. I had just completed a lengthy course of Percocet after a neck surgery and when the prescription was done, I naturally stopped taking them. Unfortunately, this also happened right in...
Another article in TIME Magazine starts to crack to door on what we’ve been talking about for years here….opiate dependency is a completely unique pathology that needs to be treated differently than other addictions. Many people truly are simply physically dependent but its the Withdrawal that’s stopping them from getting their lives back. Antiquated...
I’m glad the governor finally started to address the pill mills but that only treating a symptom of what is a much larger issue. How are we going got diminish “demand”?! If there’s demand, there will always be a way to get these pills. I’ve attached a link to the full story behind the new legislation to crack down on FLA pill mills
This is another one of those blog entries that is way overdue. It goes without saying that many of the people that are physically dependent on opiates are also sufferers of chronic pain. The term “chronic pain” is used so frequently that one might think that it’s a condition unto itself. For...
Ugh…this is getting kind of scary. It’s not the breadth of the problem that I’m surprised about…it’s the short time it took to get to this level.
I’ve been told that my brain has a “Reward Center.” I’ve also been told that my brain’s reward center was a little off-kilter when I was taking pain killers on a regular basis. The opiates turned my brain into a little spoiled brat.
Although it’s a very simplistic description of a highly complex chemical process, this makes sense to me. Opiates have...
Many of you aren’t addicts. You are physically dependent on prescription pain killers but you don’t take them for the “high”. You take them to “feel normal” and to help treat pain that was once there but now has been replaced by a mirage that feels like pain. And now you’re stuck. You may have read some of my blog posts and not been able to relate simply...
Pretty shocking but telling statistics from a short New York Times Article published a couple of days ago.
Some Highlights:
1. People looking for treatment for pain killer addiction has increased 400% in the last 10 years
2. Over 1.2 million people sought emergency medical attention for narcotic abuse last year
3. In many...
This is an interesting article in the Times about new legislation to try and curb opiate abuse. From what I gather, doctors will be required to take some sort of short course (perhaps similar to Suboxone) in order to be able to write scripts for drugs such as Dilaudid, Oxycontin and other highly potent painkillers.
I equate the Better Business Bureau seal to the Good Housekeeping seal…it exudes trust. On the internet these days, it hard to know who to really trust because there are companies that have now profited (profiteered might I say?) from selling their “Everythings’s OK with this Site!” logo for outrageous prices that many e-commerce sites display proudly. As you -the consumer-...
Before quitting pain killers, I can’t tell you how many times I would say to my self “You know, something’s gotta give.” I suppose that’s just another way of praying for “bottom” to arrive so that it would forcibly pluck me from the ongoing cycle of my obsession with these pills. Many “academics” of addiction will say that a person has to hit...
I want to talk a little bit more about the Top 10 Reasons To Quit Pain Killers because they really are the main tenets of the site. I don’t go into much detail about each one on the main page because it’s a list…lists are supposed to be short. So here’s the first in a series if you will…
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Originally Published in February 2009
I used to employ a little analogy whenever I would take my pills. For me, taking my pills was akin to taking a flight on an airplane. Did you ever use something like this when you took your pills? At the time, I didn’t know why I needed to use this “high-o-meter” and thought maybe it was for the same reason...
As I’m sorting through all the “Free Viagra!” spam comments that I get on my blog, I’m always looking for some inspiration for my next blog from visitors or customers. I get a lot of good feedback from people like yourself. I’m thankful for that because in a vacuum, I’d get boring really quickly.
I came across a comment the other day that hit a nerve with...
This is a bit of a double-entendre. i.e. I’m saying several different things with the same sentence. Since your life has revolved around the pills, everything takes a backseat…waaay in the back. Back behind the pain doctor, the pharmacists, the prescriptions, the refill dates, the counting of the pills, the re-counting of the pills…counting...
When you think about quitting pain killers a lot of scary things cross one’s mind.
One of the scariest things about the prospect of quitting painkillers is what to do with all of that time. You know, all the time spent: being high, getting prescriptions filled, going to doctors appointments to get the prescriptions, waiting at the pharmacy to pick up the pills, counting the pills...
Darvocet is Off The Market – What Does This Mean For You?
Here’s a link to an article on the Darvocet decision. So what does this mean for people taking Darvocet? Not much really; there will be plenty of other opiates to fill its place if you’re suffering from chronic pain....
So I’m here at NCAD…reporting LIVE! How exciting is this???? Uh-huh.
I’ve got the booth up and we’re definitely one of the hottest stops for all of the attendees which are comprised of Doctors of Addiction Medicine, Counselors, Nurses, Facility Administrators and pretty much every other type of person who treats addicts.
What’s so surprising to me is...
Wow that “Sold Out” business was a bit stressful. I guess you could say in a good way but it’s hard to really describe it as such. Our sales have seen such a huge spike as of late and I can only guess that our customers have gotten a bit more active on the message boards etc.
As I mentioned in my last blog post, “If you have a great product, people will find it”...
Well it’s good to see that Dr. Earthman is back safely and he wrote a note to all of us as soon as he gotten all of the sand out of his pockets, ears etc.
You can read his welcome HERE and we will begin his weekly blog Q&A next week.
Welcome back Brian!
-George
I’ve been really surprised at the significant amount of husbands, wives, parents, sisters and friends of people who have gotten stuck in the opiate addiction cycle that have come to Withdrawal-Ease for help. They all want the same thing; they want their loved ones back. And they’ll do almost anything to get him or her back. The vast majority of you out there who have contacted me or...
If you have been reading my blogs or have read some of the earlier ones, it’s easy to surmise that although my credo is “anything that works” as far as quitting pain killers. However, I’m human and just like anybody else, I have my biases. I try not to let them seep through in my writing because that would be inconsistent with my advice to you all. I guess you could say that...
(First Published Nov, 15 2008)
I remember -pretty clearly- those feelings I had the last few days before I decided to quit the pills.
I can even remember talking to my Mom (awwww….so precious) about the decision; because many of my family members have had issues with either drugs or alcohol. Great George, “out” yourself and...
The whole New Year’s resolution thing is getting to be a bit of a “Hallmark Holiday” for me. I suppose it’s a good time to make a fresh start at the beginning of the calendar year but who says that its the only time to fix things in your life? And now it’s sort of a joke when people make their resolutions and then shrug their shoulders 3 weeks later after they’ve...
Any time someone goes through something like opiate addiction the issue of faith seems to bubble to the surface. At least for me it did. I would not call myself “religious” by any stretch of the imagination. Oh sure I go to church occasionally and on holidays but I’ve never been a person with a tremendous amount of faith. I’m not agnostic or against organized religion but...
Reason #4: “Your Children Know and They’re Concerned”
This reason is titled incorrectly because it could easily be a family member or a friend who “knows” and is “concerned.” On the “Top Ten Reasons To Quit Pain Killers” page here...
At Withdrawal-Ease we will always strive to improve the efficacy of The Opiate Withdrawal Natural Supplement System. That’s why we’ve improved our extremely popular original...
I’d like to announce a major development at Withdrawal-Ease that will help us continue to profoundly improve our product both on and off-line. Although we have always liked to think of ourselves as a “healthcare” company, the FDA doesn’t technically classify us as one. This is fine I guess; but we want to be taken seriously because we are...
First of all I’d like to apologize if there were any hiccups on our website recently; we’ve been updating content and making changes in the navigation. With that aside, we’re very excited to present the new Withdrawal-Ease.com!
We’ve added a couple of new sections with a lot more information on opiate withdrawal as well as a new section called the “Discussion...
Although it may seem that the Product (RED) campaign may not have much to do with opiate addiction, I’m going to be donating 5%...
OK, so we’re putting up some of the testimonials from a field trial comprised of people who have experienced withdrawals and have used the formula for the product in the last 2 months.
The users of the Withdrawal-Ease product have stated that their withdrawals were less intense and not as long as they recall from their last experience. I want to make a...
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