Chronic Pain and Opioid Addiction

Many people can’t understand how someone becomes physically dependent or develops an addiction to an opioid pain medication, such as Vicodin, Dilaudid, OxyContin, Duragesic and Norco, prescribed by their doctor. Understanding the following key concepts can help: The brain controls everything we think, feel, say and do through neural networks and brain maps. Pain is in the…

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Vicodin Withdrawal Symptoms | Help

Vicodin Withdrawal – what should I look for? does that mean I’m addicted? what can I do? I have had a lot of questions regarding Vicodin addiction and withdrawal of late and thought it would be helpful to share the following resources from NIDA to answer common questions. This is not to be construed as…

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