The Agony Of Opiate Withdrawal

Travis Rieder talks about the agony of opioid withdrawal.

The Beginning of Opiate Addiction.

No one starts off wanting to get addicted to an opiate.

Travis, like so many others, was prescribed opiates after being injured.

He didn’t realize he would become addicted or what that would mean.

He found out the hard way.

The video is the untold story of suffering that happens when someone tries to get off an opiate pain reliever. It’s horrifying. Travis made it, so many don’t.

The Opiod Epidemic

The US has about 5% of the world’s population. We consume 70% of the world’s opiates.

These are massive numbers.

Opiates are destroying people, costing so many lives, and are responsible for most drug overdoses.

Opiods are commonly prescribed for a musculoskeletal pain like back pain.

6% of those on an opiate for ONE week will be on opiates a year later.

After 30 days, close to one third of those people are on opiates in a year. One month of an opiate also causes a loss of brain mass.

A sharp rise in babies born addicted to opiates has occurred.

Overdoses involving opioids killed more than 47,000 people in 2017, and 36% of those deaths involved prescription opioids.

OIG Report On Opioid Prescribing Within the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Program. Key findings:

• One in three Medicare Part D beneficiaries received a prescription opioid in 2016,
• About 500,000 beneficiaries received high amounts of opioids,
• Almost 90,000 beneficiaries are at serious risk, and

We Need To Change Now Before More Lives Are Destroyed.

This is insane.

Non-drug options have to be pushed for non-cancer pain.

Most of the people dying and suffering began an opiate for a musculoskeletal pain.

They had no idea that the pain they would end up experiencing would be so much worse.

Chiropractic is the leading option here in addition to PT, massage therapy, acupuncture, and all other non-drug, non-surgical options FIRST.