How to Manage Chronic Pain & Opioid Addiction
How Can You Avoid Opioid Addiction and Manage Chronic Pain? Chronic pain is a widespread issue, affecting roughly one in five of all Americans. Prescription opioids are often used to combat this issue, but they come with their own risks. In particular, many patients may end up combatting both opioid addiction and chronic pain at the same time. So how can one manage chronic pain while avoiding this situation? The relationship between opioid addiction and chronic pain is not always guaranteed, but the stats don’t look good. The National Institute on Drug Abuse states that all 80% of heroin users have at some point been on prescription opioids used as painkillers. An estimated 21-29% of people who have taken prescription opioids abuse them and, out of that number, roughly one in ten will develop an opioid addiction. However, it is not impossible to manage chronic pain without the use of opioids and other addictive drugs. Here, we’re going to look at what you need to know about chron...