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Read one of the most comprehensive books about the opioid epidemic: opioid overdose deaths, illegally manufactured fentanyl (IMF), synthetic opioid analogs, heroin, and how marijuana/cannabis affects the opioid epidemic. Read also about how drugs like cocaine methamphetamine and benzodiazepines ( BENZOS) affect the opioid epidemic, also learn about different medication treatment/programs such as naloxone, Suboxone, methadone, Safe Injection Sites/Supervised...
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Are You Addicted? Has addiction taken over your life? Do you want to stop using painkillers, but shame and embarrassment keep you from reaching out for help? You are not alone-millions find themselves in the clutches of addiction. Michael McGee, M.D., an addiction psychiatrist, has treated thousands of people struggling with addiction. His message: You don't need to suffer-you can live a life free of addiction. In this book, Dr. McGee offers a helpful...
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Pain relief is an ongoing need for hundreds of thousands of individuals around the world who have been injured or are suffering from painful medical conditions. Many rely on their family doctor for opiate based pain pills, while others seek help from pain clinics. Unfortunately, both of these options often run their course, and for many there becomes a need to find the next chapter in their struggle for pain relief. As we now know, individuals who...
5) The Back Pain Solution: A Patient's Guide to Laser Spine Surgery, Minimally Invasive Procedures, an
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Millions of people every year experience back pain. In the past, major surgery was often their only recourse. But today, for 80 to 90 percent of back pain sufferers, long-term relief no longer has to involve complicated medical procedures, extended hospital stays, and weeks of recovery.
In this informative, user-friendly guide, renowned spine surgeon Dr. Michael Hasz explores options for eliminating back pain without surgery or with minimally invasive...
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This book was written to help all interested parties (eg, clinicians who treat pain, drug and medical-practice regulators, law-enforcement authorities and pharmacists) to sort out the clinical, regulatory, and ethical issues associated with the prescribing of opioid analgesics and to reduce the risk of medication misuse, abuse, and diversion.
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"Beginning with opium, the "joy plant," which has been used for 10,000 years, Hager tells a captivating story of medicine. His subjects include the largely forgotten female pioneer who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain, the infamous knockout drops, the first antibiotic, which saved countless lives, the first antipsychotic, which helped empty public mental hospitals, Viagra, statins, and the new frontier of monoclonal antibodies. This is a...
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"Chronic pain is the most common cause of long-term disability in the United States. Twenty percent of American adults accept back spasms, throbbing joints, arthritis aches, and other physical pain as an inevitable consequence of aging, illness, or injury. But the human body is not meant to endure chronic pain. Miranda Esmonde-White has spent decades helping professional athletes, ballet dancers, and Olympians overcome potentially career-ending injuries...
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You know what chronic pain is like, but you may be surprised to find out what is actually going on, and how you can harness this to get better.
The traditional ways of treating pain are not as effective as they could be. Yet they remain the predominant way in our society and healthcare system. We need to turn this on its head, focus on your needs and create a bespoke way forward according to the life you want to lead.
Based upon the latest research,...
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Summary of True to Form by Eric Goodman | Includes Analysis Preview: True to Form by Dr. Eric Goodman is a self-help book designed to show people, especially those experiencing muscle and joint pain, how easy it is to return the body to its natural state of health and well being. Dr. Goodman is a chiropractor and personal trainer who experienced debilitating pain and found a surgery-free method for treating it using an extremely simple movement methodology....
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"I will definitely recommend Kick Pain in the Kitchen to my patients: Those who are looking to avoid pharmaceutical treatment and those who want to combine western medicine with alternative therapies." ~ Jane A. Swartz, ARNP, MSN, Rheumatology Nurse Practitioner • Do you wish for realistic, holistic tools, which will minimize your pain and make you confident in your body? • Have you struggled to meet life's demands because managing chronic pain...
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Pain is often treatable but doctors, medical professionals, and patients don't understand the intricacies of chronic pain. Millions who suffer from pain become hopeless. With Aches and Gains, Dr. Paul Christo, a Johns Hopkins physician and leading pain specialist sheds new light on what it means to live with and overcome chronic pain. Dr. Christo shares celebrity interviews, including Naomi Judd, Lisa Swayze, Montel Williams, Ally Hilfiger, and Clay...
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This book is intended to help people on the day when severe pain strikes. It is not entirely targeted at chronic pain, however, will contribute to the reduction of chronic pain. It outlines concisely what you can do to reduce immediate, acute pain. This eBook is short and sweet; it goes straight to your point of need and will arm you with the tools that you need immediately. When used within 12 hours of onset, these measures can often succeed in lessening...
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This is war! Over 76 million American hostages suffer at the hands of this vexing villain, three quarters of these also battle depression. Added to these sad and startling statistics, many suffer loss of sleep, loss of focus and loss of work, which ultimately results in loss of income. This foul foe has long been described as 'chronic pain.' It does not discriminate when attacking. The dreadful devil goes after anyone. It targets all areas of the...
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At a time when Canada is struggling with a doctor-prescribed opioid crisis, this book offers a safe alternative for the millions of people who live with chronic pain: self-hypnosis, an ancient technique used today to soothe pain, both acute and long-lasting, with impressive results. This solution comes at a critical time: The typical prescription for pain - opioids - doesn't work for everyone, and comes with significant and even deadly side effects....
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Lea Wilson discovered what many people suffering with the agonizing and emotionally stressful pelvic pain disorder already knew: Chronic Pelvic Pain (CPP) is a poorly understood clinical syndrome of related diagnoses AND research has verified huge difficulties in effective treatment. Affecting as many as 9% of men, Chronic Pelvic Pain continues to baffle the clinicians.Her husband's suffering (>3 years) provided motivation to gain understanding about...
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Empowering persons living with pain to be active in their pain management together with healthcare professionals and others. Focus not just on pain but also on the pain's impact on quality of life. Easy understandable overview of problems at hand for acknowledgement and validation of the pain experience. Living with ongoing pain is much more than living with the pain. It is a daily challenge to sleep, mood, tiredness, and much more. A challenge to...
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So, you had a Traumatic Brain Injury, suffered through Post-Concussion Syndrome, now you are faced with new challenges of battling an auto-immune disease or have been diagnosed with Fibromyalgia. Perhaps doctors don't know what is wrong. Still, we are experiencing aches, stiffness, pain, brain fog and plenty of fatigue. Now what? Hasn't a brain injury been enough? Is there a connection? We need answers! We need help! Where do we go from here? We've...
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Get Chronic Pain Under Control! Have you tried a number of approaches to manage chronic pain without much relief? The discouraging cycle of hope followed by frustration and continued pain can be as damaging to your quality of life as pain itself. To address this problem, the most current approaches to pain management advocate living well despite pain. They encourage pain sufferers to set aside their struggle with pain and learn the skills they need...
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