Important Posts about the The Opioid Crisis

These articles from various sources will give you basic knowledge about the issues surrounding the opioid “crisis”.

Important Posts about the Opioid Crisis

The Opioid “Crisis”

• The Opioid Crisis: Nociception, Pain and Suffering
• Only NON-Medical Opioid Use Leads to Heroin Use
• NO DIFFERENCE between cancer and non-cancer pain

CDC Guidelines

• CDC Guidelines Refuted with Scientific Evidence
• CDC: Opioid Guidelines Not a Rule, Regulation or Law
• 5 Myths About the CDC Opioid Guidelines

The numbers/statistics

• There is No ‘Epidemic’ of Painkiller Overdoses
• 2.5 Times more Suicides than Opioid Overdoses
• 440,000 deaths each year from medical errors in the U.S.

Damage from chronic pain

• Bodily Damage from Uncontrolled Pain – a long list of blog posts with short blurbs referring to various aspects of pain’s destructiveness

Opioid Addiction

• Pain, Opioids and Addiction Myths and Facts
• Opioids, Endorphins, and Getting High
• Tolerance, hyperalgesia, and addiction not common
• Opioid Dependence Confused with Addiction
• Pain Medication is Not a Gateway to Heroin

Making a case for the use of opioids