Chronic Pain and Opiods Reading List
(as of 6/21/2017)
My personal experience with chronic pain
- My Chronic Pain Story
- My Journey Through Non-Opioid Pain Treatment
- My EDS Pain is Chronic Acute Pain
Explanation of physiological effects of opioids
- Addiction, Dependence, and Tolerance
- Opioids, Endorphins, and Euphoria (Getting High)
- NIH: The Role of Opioids in the Treatment of Chronic Pain
- The Opioid Crisis: Nociception, Pain and Suffering
Opioid Addiction
- Pain, Opioids and Addiction Myths and Facts
- Only NON-Medical Opioid Use Leads to Heroin Use
- Tolerance, hyperalgesia, and addiction not common
- Opioid Dependence Confused with Addiction
- Pain Medication is Not a Gateway to Heroin
Chronic pain damages the body and mind
- Bodily Damage from Uncontrolled Pain (multiple articles)
- No difference between cancer and non-cancer pain
- Chronic Pain IS a Catastrophe
In March 2016, the CDC published a guideline for opioid prescribing, which is being codified into laws, even though it was intended only as a guideline for PCP doctors.
Pain itself is hard to live with but the latest restrictions on opioid doses are imposing serious suffering on pain patients.
For information about the guidelines and the resulting disaster:
EDS and Chronic Pain News & Info 