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 You take them to “feel normal” and to help treat pain that was once there but now has been replaced by a mirage that feels like pain.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...

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”...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

Reason #3 You Can’t Remember All The Good Stuff: Candidly, this is a tough blog entry for me to write. This is where a lot of my regret likes to call “home”. And unfortunately, even though I got out of addiction with my physical well-being intact, a good state of mind and -for the most...

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 on this site, I...

Reason #2: Your Work Is Suffering:I can’t look at the news anymore; it’s just the same old story about how we’re all gonna die from this terrible economy. Ok ok, let it happen and lets get this depression over with so we can go back to worrying about useless crap like Lindsay...

I would say about 75% of my visitors here are taking Vicodin or some other derivative of Hydrocodone. It’s a popular drug to say the least and doctors give it out like candy for all sorts of aches and pains. As funny as it sounds, I think it’s a good drug and it controls pain quite well especially...