Interest has sprung up in what has been described as an innovative breakthrough in the treatment of many kinds of disorder in the body - the use of stem cells to renew and re grow damaged cells in the body that contribute to pain and disorder.

As people become more aware of the toxic effects of the long term use of pain drugs, is it worth looking into stem cells tecnnology – does it offer real hope?

In the treatment of pets, when there is less need for endless ethical and moral debate, it is found that stem cells therapy has been used for animals for several years, with considerable success. With people seeking more natural treatments for their pets, than daily medications, reports are that pets are doing well and recovering from pain and injury with stem cells treatment.

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There are currently several stem cells therapy practitioners in the world who claim to have achieved remarkable recoveries, in around six months, for people with a variety of conditions that cause them pain and disability.

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In Toronto, in Canada, stem cells therapy has been used, early this year, in the context of heart surgery, with stem cells being put into the heart at the same time as by-pass surgery was carried out on the patient.

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In 2011, Italian and Spanish scientists have found that the spinal cord could be a potential source of stem cells for use in recovery from spinal injury. It has long been thought that the spinal cord is unable to heal itself after severe trauma – now it is found that meningeal cells contain crucial stem cell properties.

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Interest in stem cells therapy is world wide with the Karolinska Institutet using stem cells, together with other cells, repairing damage to spinal cord injury in mice.

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It seems that stem cells are to be found in all parts of the body, ready to become mobilized in the event of severe trauma. It also appears that the first step that the body takes in dealing with severe stress is to immobilize the area and put normal functioning on hold.

The body then appears to allow a period in which there is inflammation and degeneration in the area, that allows for a complete removal of all damaged tissue, a resting, clean up stage, that would appear to be a essential precursor to eventual regeneration and recovery.

It could be that we intrude too much into this natural stage of healing, taking pride in cleaning up the “mess”, reducing inflammation and attempting to restore mobility too soon. It might be that with our surgery and drugs we actually impede the healing process.

It is now suggested that the use of morphine can severely upset the healing cycle immediately after injury, and impede natural healing and recovery.

An article published in PubMed suggests that morphine reduces neural stem cells. It has only recently been acknowledged that long term use of morphine damages bone and connective tissue.

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The body itself supplies pain relief to areas suffering trauma, in the form of endogenous pain killing substances – endorphin is natural morphine. Endorphin helps to modify and regulate an orderly process of healing.

The use of synthetic painkiller drugs such as OxyContin, OxyNeo tends to dominate the scene, providing pain relief, at cost – of inhibition of natural healing.

It cannot be that stem cells therapy is inappropriate for healing – the body is full of stem cell sites that can be brought into action whenever the body suffers severe trauma or injury. The question is not what drugs should we use to try and encourage stem cell involvement in healing, but what natural state in the body best promotes conditions optimal to healing.

It would appear that in general terms excessive stress must be reduced, the patient re-assured and provided with appropriate emotional support. People with moderately severe damage to the spine have experienced a complete return to normal functionality following rest and immobility, together with high levels of nutritional and emotional support.

Given time and rest, the body has been shown to regenerate more than half of the nerve cells damaged in the spinal area, following severe trauma. It would be a sad thing, if time reveals that it is our well intentioned “early interventions” into trauma that actually impede natural healing, condemning people to partial healing, and continuing pain.

Research has now discovered that primates such as monkeys can make excellent recovery from spinal injury – with no external intervention – simply by allowing the natural process of healing to occur unimpeded.

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It would seem that intervention should be reserved for the most extreme of situations, – in most cases the body, given rest and support, can effectively heal itself.

Every time that medical scientists discover a new wonder of nature – it immediately sparks a desire to create new drugs so that we can involve ourselves in and take control of the process.

If we want to stop the trend towards becoming a world full of the “walking wounded”,

we need to stop science in its tracks – and get back to a holistic approach.

We need to re-focus on and provide comprehensive support, that is non-invasive and drug free – that enables natural healing.

Opium poppy latex contains varying amounts of morphine, codeine and thebaine.

OxyContin and OxyNeo that contain oxycodone as their active ingredient, are synthetic opioid drugs, manufactured from thebaine. Other synthetic opioids made from thebaine include buprenorphine, oxycodone, oxymorphone (Opana), naloxone, naltrexone.

Although not used medicinally, thebaine is a restricted drug due to its potential to be used as a base for the manufacture of a wide range of opioid drugs.

There is a third group of opioid drugs – that perhaps should be top of the list – and these are the endogenous opioids found in the body, that promote pain relief and healing.

The word opioid is of a relatively new invention. The true opiates are those substances that provide pain relief, found naturally in the body, that include endorphins, enkephalins and dynorphin.

Other natural opiates are the substances to found in opium poppy latex that imitate closely the function and capabilities of the endogenous opiates. The third catagory contains those opioid drugs that are synthetic or semi-synthetic - manufactured by man to resemble the opiates. Used medicinally by medical doctors, they cause us no end of trouble.

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For example low dose naltrexone is being hailed for its benefits to health. A naltrexone equivalent can be made naturally by the body.

Should not research focus on natural stimulation of this chemical – rather than drug reliance.

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Man has known for centuries that in plants there exist certain groups of phytochemicals that are similar to and related in their functions to groups of endogenous chemicals found in the human body.

For example in dark skinned fruits and the leaves of green tea there are to be found a range of phytochemicals that act as anti-oxidants and promote good health in the body when used medicinally. It is necessary to eat these substances unprocessed and raw to gain a maximum benefit. In traditional medicine, preparations of these substances have been made up as tinctures and herbals – stronger doses than in natural form, but intended for temporary therapeutic use, in which the original integrity of the substances is carefully preserved.

People speak of the resveratrol that is contained in dark grapes, and speak of the benefits of wine as containing resveratrol, a natural antioxidant. In fact the fermentation of wine creates an overload of ethyl alcohol that is toxic to the body, with minimal traces of resveratrol remaining in the final product. Resveratrol is an active substance, not easily reduced to a “drug”.

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When synthetic drugs are made – a base product such as morphine or thebaine is chemically altered to produce a synthetic imitation of any of the many “drugs” that the human body, or a plant can synthesize for itself.

Every drug that has been produced by man from the opium poppy latex has been and can be produced in the human body – heroin, buprenorphine – traces can be found made by the human body in the process of it providing natural pain relief, and or reduction of stress.

Scientists go to a lot of trouble to isolate and patent drugs – the reality is that once in the body, they all revert to a primal soup – metabolized by the body not to help with healing, metabolized by the body to assist with faster excretion of something that the body experiences as alien and toxic – that inteferes with homeostasis.

Sure we get pain relief for a while, until the body has managed to regain control, and dismantle the synthetic drug.

Oxycodone was developed to be an improvement, with less addiction, fewer bad side effects than morphine or heroin. Heroin was originally a pharmaceutical drug – said to be better than morphine. Therapeutic use of heroin was discontinued when it was shown that the first metabolite when heroin is metabolized, broken down by the body is nothing other than pure morphine.

Oxycodone is also broken down in a similar way – the first metabolite is oxymorphone – patented as Opana.

It is the endogenous painkillers in the body that naturally bind to the opiate receptors, opiate receptors being primarily found in the gastric tract, and in the central, and peripheral nervous system.

It can never be said of a natural substance precisely what function or form it will take in the maintenance of good health in the body. Virtually all biochemicals can morph at will, changing their form and their structure – the body directing precisely what part each chemical plays, changes and adjustments that take place in nanoseconds.

Natural substances in action quickly confound the scientist – stress will turn progesterone into cortisol.

Natural endorphins are similar to morphine and raise dopamine levels, providing similar pain relief. Endogenous chemicals can’t function in the context of a synthetic drug regime.

Oxycodone has always been thought to attach to mu opioid receptors – studies have shown that its function might be directed to other structures known as kappa opioid receptors, particularly in experiments with diabetic mice. If this is the case, then oxycodone provides its pain relief by relieving stress, rather than by achieving a “runner’s high”.

The bottom line is that we have become amenable to drug use, for pain relief because for various reasons, related to stress, our bodies have not been providing it at an adequate level. So happy are we to get pain relief that we don’t mind the collateral damage – that we are taught to regard as being tedious “side effects”.

Some drug side effects are beneficial – but they “shouldn’t happen” – antidepressants give pain relief, pain relievers can act as antidepressants.

Oxycodone causes constipation – doctors prescribe Targin that is oxycodone and naloxone – that provides pain relief and eases constipation.

Opioid drug use is heavy handed at best. Toxic and sometimes fatal.

Is it not time to give up synthetic opioid use, and begin to trust and develop natural pain regulation ?

Many people in pain, and or addicted to Oxy, have been persuaded to use alternative drugs such as different types of opioid drug, or NSAID’s and other non-narcotic painkillers. First Nations people in Canada, addicted to Oxy are currently being provided with Suboxone. Some former Oxy users are considering using heroin. There is no advantage in using one prescription or illicit drug over another – as all are tainted with the same toxicity, and expose people to a range of damaging side effects.

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Most non-narcotic medications lack the efficacy of morphine, and are toxic to the liver and kidneys.

In the search for effective non-drug alternatives for the relief of acute and chronic pain, many people have considered holistic health care alternatives.

In one case, it was recommended to a sufferer of fibromyalgia that they go to a holistic healthcare professional. The holistic practitioner suggested meditation, and exercise, both of which helped to relieve levels of stress – and difficulties in coping with life, bringing relief from this person’s experience of fibromyalgia at a physical level. Exercise and meditation relieve the pain of occasional flare-ups.

Opioid drugs are in fact one of the last choices that you would make when suffering from fibromyalgia because opioid use will worsen the symptoms. Research has only recently proven than chronic opioid use damages bone and connective tissue.

However, you cannot blame a doctor for prescribing an opioid drug for pain relief – opioids are the drugs for pain “management” – regardless of what conditions in life might be causing and contributing to our total pain experience.

In any situation of injury or disorder, there are many factors that cause and contribute to the total experience. Pain and disorder in the body is often the end result of years of neglect and abuse.

Untreated anxiety, depression, anger and grief are a cause of more physical disorders in the body, than we care to know about.

Even with physical injury from accidental trauma, our attitude to the cause, and belief or not in ultimate recovery can be definitive of the extent of our pain and suffering. Resentful feelings, anger and depression can impede recovery.

Like the medical profession, we want success and results in pain relief - we isolate and treat our pain – so often we shoot the messenger, with drugs and see no further need to act on the message. We don’t read the pain and so keep on abusing our body.

All drug use is a form of palliative care for people who don’t have the time or inclination to seek out better ways to heal their mind and body.

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There is at the moment considerable outrage about the medication of hyperactive children on the basis that medications should not be used to moderate behavior, and that the kids involved are clearly in need of more emotional security, and the achievement of better life skills.

When the early environment causes autistic behavior in infants, it is now widely recognised that getting the child out and about with supportive, caring trainers provides better results than the prescription of antipsychotics. Most people would surely accept that there are better ways to treat obese children than by giving them weight loss drugs.

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When we suffer from pain it is a sign to get ourselves out and about, get out of the conditions that are causing our migraines, that make us unable to sit and properly digest our food, unable to sleep without benzos, unable to function without anti-depressants.

Holistic care looks around and about to discover the relationship as between disorder and it’s causes. Typical stressors in the world today include family abuse and negative peer pressure, economic uncertainty, industrial pollution, social divides and exclusion, and the incidence of disorder and pain in the body, injury, loss and bereavement.

Physical and emotional pain is a trigger for drug use because we don’t look at better ways to resolve it by addressing the causes. The best natural treatments for pain, injury, disorders and drug abuse use a drug free holistic approach that is grounded in scientific principles.

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Drug use is palliative and is inflicted on the body. We inflict drug use on ourselves, in much the same way that we inflict disorder on the body, in response to tension and anxiety.

Cleansing the body and the mind of toxic stressors and emotional pressures, achieving proper and adequate mobilization, nutrition and rest – the same methods that enable people to become free of addictive drug use, help with healing and pain relief.

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People dependent on opioids, who say that they need them because no one else has suffered their pain, had it as bad as they have, are frequently those, who have not chosen to fully explore, with an open mind, the many holistic options that offer pain relief. Drugs mobilize the same pain relief chemicals that a healthy body can do for itself. Holistic methods enable relief with no adverse side effects.

A Corsican proverb says that: “The bird in a cage sings for love, or it sings in rage”.

Make no mistake – psychosomatic disorders and compulsive behavior such as substance abuse – are expressions of rage, are ultimately harmful to health.

We sing out for love of our opioid drugs - in our cage we know no better.

Get on top and get drug free by using effective holistic methods that can enable you to dismantle the cage – and begin to enjoy the genuine freedom of a drug free healthy life.

There is fear, confusion, distress and a desire to urgently find a drug alternative. For those however who are prepared to sit back, and consider why it is that Oxy has been dumped - it presents an opportunity for the opening of new doors.

An article appears in the Globe and Mail – it comprehensively covers the issues involved in the big OxyContin debate. Among the facts that the article presents are that

there are an estimated 200,000 prescription drug addicts in Canada (more than illicit drug users),

there is no research on the long term effects of oxycodone use and its safety,

there were 1.5 million oxycodone prescriptions written last year – costing Canada over $150 million,

prescriptions for oxycodone rose by 80-fold since the year 2000 – that is 80 prescriptions today, for every one issued then,

doctors get their training in pain management from drug company reps,

there is no government funding for physical and psychological alternative programs for pain management.

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One of the reasons for Oxy use is chronic back pain.

Recent research from 2007, shows that there can be a “fear” response to back pain that can inhibit a person from fully exploring the full range of movement that is physically possible.

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The University of Ohio study, conducted by James S Thomas and Christopher R France, found that the study confirmed existing evidence that fear avoidance behavior is a powerful predictor of future disability, and risk of chronic pain.

This leads to a situation in which many people are called malingerers, neurotic and left untreated for the anxiety and or depression that surrounds their disability.

For some people the limitation on free movement is real – imaging reveals a physical defect that leads to restricted movement and a genuine experience of restricting pain.

Doctors faced with the “inoperable” condition do not recommend alternative treatments for regaining more mobility that require the specific skills of practitioners such as chiropractors, masseurs, and myopathic therapists. They close, rather than open new doors in best practice for the treatment of chronic pain.

In an article entitled Spinal Decompression – Comprehensive Care for Back Pain, chiropractor Dr Connie D’Astolfo presents a case study that would, in the traditional healthcare practice be consigned to drug treatment, with opioids exacerbating rather than improving the patient’s general health conditions.

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Another painful condition for which many people seek opioid relief is the condition of painful heel spurs.

Heel spurs do not cause pain but are a symptom of plantar fascilitis – an inflammed condition of the connective tissue that is best healed by stretching, rest and natural supportive conditions such as better shoes, losing weight, and a holistic approach to good health practices. Spurs will disappear with recovery from the condition, whereas pain medications tend to excerbate the situation.

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People prepared to open new doors in the field of natural pain management will find that treatments have been developed for years, often based upon ancient wisdom, that are effective, that comprehensively resolve all the issues related to conditions of chronic pain.

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Natural, holisitc treatments for headaches, migraines and pain in any part of the body can provide safe and effective recovery, without the use of drugs. Further enquiry into any long term pain condition will reveal the “fear” of change, of setting out into the unknown, that is fostered by a drug mentality.

Life without Oxy can give us the chance to open new doors and perhaps get rid of our pain forever.

The issue of chronic pain management has been complicated by the fact that drugs such as OxyContin, used for chronic pain also are addictive.

Oxycodone withdrawal tends to cause symptoms of hyperanxiety, muscle spasms, stomach cramps, sweating and insomnia. This is a “rebound” effect from the depressed and sluggish condition that chronic opioid use causes to the body

Before people can start on natural treatments to deal with their original pain, people will need drug detox and rehab to eliminate drug symptoms.

The benefits of using a comprehensive oxycodone recovery program, such as Narconon Trois Rivieres, is that many of the treatments and methods that lead to addiction recovery also assist with relief from the causes of chronic pain.

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For example the low heat sauna treatment, intended to provide complete drug detoxification, will also provide warmth and tension reduction in painful joints and tissues, can reduce inflammation.

Exercise promotes mobility and the emphasis on good nutrition is a powerhouse for recovery.

Recovery from drug addiction and from chronic pain involves a comprehensive approach to all of the aspects of life that cause and contribute to the condition.

Drug use and pain are both symptoms of a deeper malaise – getting to roots of drug addiction and the causes of pain requires you to take a comprehensive approach – opening new doors.

Use a Narconon program to get free of drug abuse and addiction, and you are more than halfway towards complete recovery, by natural means, from chronic pain and illness.

CBC News warns in February of 2012, that the intended replacement of OxyContin, with OxyNeo in Canada, is a looming crisis - people are in fear of the consequences of OxyContin withdrawal, upon the addicted population. Others, in pain, and reliant upon OxyContin til now, wonder what alternatives to OxyNeo they can get for their symptoms of chronic pain.

Dr Meldon Kahan of St Joseph’s Health Center in Toronto says that this is a very unusual health crisis because it was generated by the medical system.

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We essentiallly have a health crisis, on our hands, at a widespread level because doctors in Canada, who treat “illness” with specific medications, to a large extent exacerbate chronic illness by using toxic medications that impede the process of natural healing, and a return to good health.

The medical system fails to understand that mental distress can cause physical symptoms, that a large component of chronic physical pain has an emotional basis, and the wider implications of this convergence in the proper treatment of chronic pain. Sure, people love their pain meds, cannot live without them – but this is coming from a place of anxiety, and tension from people denied a real opportunity to experience alternative treatments for their pain and malaise.

Marty Whittaker, who broke her back in a water skiing accident, 12 years ago is among 30,000 people in Ontario who are dependent upon OxyContin for their pain. There has been an increase in people seeking methadone in Ontario, people who know that they are addicted to Oxy but have found it to be their only means of effective pain relief.

Marty says: “I’m as dependent on OxyContin as I am on my glasses to see”.

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We could say that this represents, in a nutshell, the whole controversy about the way we go about healing the body today. We are as conditioned to believing that we need drugs for pain, as we conditioned to believe that if our eyesight is poor, we need glasses to achieve 20/20 vision.

Improving our eyesight by natural means – many books have been written. How many people have read them, or put into practice their methods, before running off to the optician for new glasses because designer frames are on discount this week.

Alongside the biblical texts of the medical profession, starting with Gray’s Anatomy, that present the definitive tao of healthcare practice today, we will find many books on authentic healthcare and practices – relegated to the “how interesting” catagory of books that we read for amusement at weekends – before getting back to the business of mainstream “living”, with its quota of medical, dental and optical appointments.

For those in a rush Ted Maser offers a 10 minute guide to better eyesight – it is clear that this speaker, who travels worldwide sees the concept of creating better eyesight in a holistic context. It is a good place to start to reflect upon the conditions of life that contribute to our poor and failing eyesight.

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Time honored methods for natural improvement of vision were designed by Bate’s dating back to 1920, when he wrote the book Perfect Sight Without Glasses. His wife edited this book such the work in modern form, first printed in 1943, is known as Better Eyesight Without Glasses.

Bate’s suffered the same repression at the hands of the medical profession as has been the fate of many. Medical science prescribed that – refractory errors of vision had unknown causes and were incurable – in fact they were “blunders of nature” that had to be fixed using glasses.

Bate’s saw another way, and his work offers people today freedom from the need to use spectacles or contact lenses – if they want to go there.

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One can easily see that in rejecting the then current theories, of deficient eyesight, the work of Bate’s had the potential to take the bread and butter off the plates of the myopic medical profession.

In the fields of pain, of addiction, of all psychosomatic disorder the medical profession has doggedly sat like a dog in the manger on top of the business of healthcare, and been instrumental in fostering ill health.

People today with pain, facing an opioid crisis need to open their eyes, with 20/20 vision and use their eyes as nature intended, to scan the whole horizon.

Cities today create limitations on the natural peripheral field, eyes get used to tunnel vision driving along the freeway of a morning, a totally different and confining activity compared with riding a horse through the open countryside.

Our eyes and bodies are under exercised to a point where we have become obese, illpostured, and unfit.

We get no help from the medical field to become the fit and healthy people that we all have the potential to be – we just get offered a “pill”.

People injured, and in pain have been sold a pup, and denied the opportunity to properly consider and evaluate drug free natural methods for recovery from pain, injury and addiction.

Narconon International has developed, since 1966, a comprehensive, drug free natural method for complete addiction recovery. Sure it has been criticized, condemned and derided – what successful natural alternative treatment method has not been.

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People with pain today, and chronic injury owe it to themselves, their families, to at least suspend their judgment, open their belief – and have a look at the opportunities to regain health, become pain free and mobile that are on offer in the wider world of drug free holistic healthcare – and to improve eyesight, naturally to 20/20 vision.

Opioid highs are nothing compared to the highs that come with real life achievement,

and the natural management of pain.

Getting clean means getting free of negative thoughts and reasoning,

and having no fear of relapse caused by negative thoughts and residual toxins in the body.

True freedom from Oxy and all substance abuse is a wonderful feeling, although in truth you might feel right now that your very life and security depends upon you clinging to that baggage.

To fully take advantage of the freedom of a drug free life means that you will have to give up everything that you do in your life that supports continuing pain, depression and anxiety.

You will need to give up resentment and anger directed towards the past, and have an optimistic frame of mind as you look forward into the future.

Giving up drugs and substance abuse is a complex process, for which comprehensive , residential addiction recovery programs provide effective guidelines and support.

Giving up drug use is not easy. Do the job once, and do it properly - get clean and get a life.

Narconon programs provide the key to complete addiction recovery,

a program that works to a time frame, that sets out the steps that you need to take to eliminate negativity in your mind, and drug toxicity in the body, The Narconon program eliminates any need for maintenance drugs, or follow up programs that mean your recovery is not yet complete.

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When Narconon professionals consider that you have completed the program, and you will know when you have, you will be completely free of drug dependence, and be able to move on into a happy and productive life.

The essential difference between Narconon programs and others is that your life becomes filled with the re-generative force of life.

No more ducking and diving to avoid events and people that used to trigger negative feelings, and drug taking behavior.

Narconon programs give you 100% immunity to anything you will encounter in life, that used to defeat and upset you, make you turn to drugs.

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You will learn a new approach to life, that enables you to deal with the traps and the pitfalls – to be strong, content and happy – in control of your life.

Research based on admissions to the CAMH Toronto drug programs during 2000-2004, reveals a sad and dismal pattern of increasing prescription oxycodone abuse.

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It is good to see that the government has finally put a stop to medical abuse by cutting off the funding for both Oxy and OxyNeo, leaving the patients somewhat high and dry.

Doctors have been said to prescribe as many as 200 80mg Oxy’s per fortnight for patients complaining of pain. Doctors have acted recklessly, beyond their competence, and got their patients addicted. Doctors who have refused to prescribe Oxy however, have been pathologized and held culpable by their peers of professional negligence.

Over-reliance on prescription drugs and medications is the biggest trap and pitfall that modern society has ever fallen into.

People are sadly mistaken if they believe that the pathway to health, and recovery from pain, be it emotional or physical, needs to have any involvement whatever with medication by drugs.

CAMH in Canada is the biggest provider and broker for drug based programs and behavioral methods of addiction treatment that are not recovery focused, with repeated relapse factored in as being an incentive for you to make more effort towards your addiction recovery.

Despite full recovery under these programs being an extremely rare event - people afflicted by drug addiction are encouraged to attend.

For many it simply becomes a case of exchanging the octopus of addiction, for the octopus of addiction support.

For those addicted there would seem to be no alternative but to have one octopus or the other clamped around your head.

The lucrative industry of “addiction support” is like a secondary tumor that has sprung up from our long term failure to confront the issue of drugs, and to use effective measures to eradicate from our society drug abuse and addiction to drugs.

People who want to beat drug addiction and get completely clean use the programs conducted by Narconon International, throughout the world.

There is a lot of ambivalence in the world today about dealing with drug abuse and addiction – we have been conditioned for many years to believing that drug use is the answer to our pain.

As the unresolved tensions of modern life increase our levels of pain, so inevitably does our drug use. We have to break the toxic cycle, and believe that healthy, pain free living is possible, without dependence on drugs.

But most of all we have to want to go there, throw away the crutches – be prepared to totter a while, until we find our feet.

Life today is much like being on a ship tossed around in a storm, most of the passengers sprawled out on deck, guzzling down the “Quells”. Narconon programs get you back on your feet, and help you to find the “sea legs” you need to get back on top and live a drug free life.

Drug addicted and need some help – real help that can set you free? -

Narconon is happy to take you on board it’s life raft for a while, (on average two to six months) and provide you with the drug free, natural support that enables complete drug addiction recovery.

OxyContin has been the mainstay, a king pin in the medical war against pain for around fifteen years, despite having limited efficacy in long term pain relief, and a high addictive potential.

Some Canadian provinces have made a decision to stop funding the fiasco of “Oxy on Demand”, out of the public purse. OxyNeo is still an approved drug. However, it will only be used on a restricted basis.

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OxyContin will be unfunded, and phased out, and if people choose to use OxyNeo for pain relief – then it will have to be on a doctor’s prescription, and at their own expense.

Only Alberta is going to keep on with the old tradition of public funding for Oxy, at least for the time being,with Quebec and Manitoba still undecided.

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Attempts at tampering with OxyNeo, for recreational use, in the USA since early 2010, when OxyNeo  first came onto their market, have proven that the new formulation is more or less unusable.

Drug use tends to create tunnel vision – and not only in terms of optical disturbance. People adapted to drug use, see the drying up of supply of one drug, only in terms of wondering what other drug they can use to replace it.

OxyContin is a narcotic, sleep inducing for those within a normal range of vitality, for those depressed, who feel compressed, those who are in pain, Oxycodone gives pain relief and is a euphoric stimulant until addiction sets in, after which it becomes more of a curse than a blessing.

The phasing out of OxyContin, the introduction of OxyNeo is a watershed in the context of medical pain drug administration.

Do people breathe a sigh of relief – ask their doctor to recommend, at last, a range of natural, alternative treatments for their pain,

including osteopathy, with it’s effective treatment plans that are recovery focused,

or a low heat sauna treatment using the Hubbard method - that provides full chemical detox, while soothing tension and inflammation in painful tissues and joints, relaxing to body and mind.

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Or is it a chance, an excuse to go illegal and try out illicit drugs - massive amounts of bennies, Special K, or LSD.

There’s no doubt that chronic pain can bring out the gangsta in anyone.

No more Oxy - what’s your poison – there’s plenty more drugs on the street.

No more Oxy – it’s not a tragedy – it’s time to get into focus.

What exactly is your pain problem – and ultimately - why the poison?

Who do the medical practitioners, the high ranking specialists go to when they have got a painful, potentially life threatening injury or disorder.

Do they consult with their colleagues, get ops on the cheap from their mates, get discounted pain drugs – no, – not on your Nellie Duff.

The higher their ranking, the more likely medical professionals are – to seek out and use a natural, alternative drug free remedy.

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And as for using street drugs, we all know what happens to junkies, but – what do top drug dealers use.

The answer is they don’t. Dealers who use end up broke, in the Graybar Motel, aka pokey, while circling the drain.

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If we get out of our comfort zone, and into dealing on the street, we might have to learn a whole new language – very quickly.

So, why not opt for safety first – and take up with methdone? People using methadone illicitly will find outcomes to be unpredictable, and on occasion, fatal.

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It is not widely reported, but people are also at risk of methadone death when placed on a formal program, particularly at the beginning of the treatment plan.

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If you are less than enchanted with the prospect of using “liquid hand cuffs” – that is not surprising. There is always the oxymorphone alternative – why not try opana?

Opana is an opioid drug responsibly packaged to deter abuse, quietly marketed by Endo Pharmaceuticals, for chronic pain relief, with none of the hype of Oxy.

People have complained that Opana is the ruin of their sex life, makes them feel overly sedated. Opana doesn’t get rave reviews on the popular drug sites. Nor does hydromorphone hydrochloride, aka Dilaudid.

In any case, current production problems with Opana suggest that at least for a while, Opana is not likely to be available to anyone except existing users.

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That all seems to leave no alternative, but – hello heroin.

There are no hero’s or heroine’s where heroin is involved, from Black Tar to White Lady – you pay’s your money – you take’s your hit – into ecstasy or oblivion. Don’t assume in heroin dealing that the Marquess of Queensberry rules.

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The Narconon program was founded by a heroin addict, a prisoner of misfortune, held in an Arizona prison and offered a shotgun by a guard to take away his misery. A watershed in his life, given the freedom to live or die, William Benitez chose life, and to overcome a lifetime of pain, and drug addiction.

When looking at alternatives to OxyContin, users now have total freedom.

Narconon programs in Canada offer drug free, natural, detox from drugs, and effective drug rehabilitation, that assists with reduction of pain at a physical, emotional and psychosomatic level.

Narconon provides effective detox and rehab for all OxyContin users.

Take for example the extreme emotions of anger, hate & depression – emotions that if not discharged and resolved, lead to stress and tension in various parts of the body. Prolonged stress can lead to inflammation and irritation of viscera, and is a direct cause of biochemical imbalance. Actual pain that has no apparent cause, is generally connected to emotional negativity.

The attraction of drug use is that it takes away our pain. People seek drugs for pleasure as an antidote to underlying issues of pain. Often we think of pain as being a simple response by the body to some kind of physical illness or disorder. We rarely think of pain and disorder in the body as being a form of emotional expression.

Anger, hate and depression can drive the experience of pain, and related disorder in the body. We can outwardly express our negative feelings in outbusts of crying, shouting,or hitting. When we feel constrained from “acting out”, our negative energy is directed inward, and we effectively “turn against the self” – often treating the “body” as being separate from our “mind”.

Powerless to remove or relieve the sources of tension, we beat up instead on our body. The extent to which we choose to “damage” ourselves is in direct relationship to the intensity of pressure. Tension and stress causes disorder in the body when we are constrained from relieving it, in any other way.

In our muscles and joints we can carry a lot of tension, this can lead to unhealthy postural variations, a lack of adequate breathing, cardio-vascular and digestive disorders. Diseases such as chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia and Crohn’s can be a psychosomatic symptom.

Release from the psychic bondage, brings release from the “dis-ease”.

There are many triggers for anxiety, anger and hate in the modern world, both in our personal relationships, and at a global level. There are very few opportunities for us to fully vent and express, in a meanful way, the full extent of our anxiety, anger and hate.

In an attempt to feel better, we might compromise, decide to “live with” our anxiety, anger and hate, because we do not have an ability to negotiate for anything better. This is never a good idea.

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Some people have tried to establish a direct relationship as between the experience of certain types of pain in the body – and emotional conflict. One of the most comprehensive books, and highly regarded in the field of alternative healing is the Inna Segal book – The Secret Language of your Body.

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We are all familar with the tension created by sudden anxiety, the lethargy of depression, the specific parts of the body affected when we feel anger or hate.

Many of us have submerged our “real” feelings in order to maintain a facade of contented, every day living, sometimes to appease an aggressor from whom we cannot, perhaps do not, want to escape. However, long term and unresolved emotional conflicts and issues will find a way to emerge.

Mental conflict might emerge as specific pain and tension in various parts of the body (somatic “disorders”), or as a wide range of behavioral patterns that have the specific purpose of discharging tension from the body, (psychological “disorders“).

Some people find tension release by acting out at a community level, by engaging in anti social behavior, such as expressing their frustration and anger by writing up graffiti.( social “dysfunction“).

Ultimately, extreme conflicts in the mind can cause extreme disorders of body function.

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A holistic and comprehensive approach is needed to get to the root of and provide solutions to emotional conflict, pain and related substance abuse. We might need professional, comprehensive help to deal with the huge emotional overload caused by conflicted beliefs.

Often it is those closest to us, with whom we might have the most toxic bonds, negativity feeding negatively.

Physical illness and painful symptoms can also arise from chemical toxicity - such as exposure to pollutants, plastics, and certain types of food.

PMS and menopause symptoms are an example of painful conditions that should not be medicated but need comprehensive, effective nurturing, and supportive detoxification.

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Doctors using narcotics, for physical pain “management”, have ignored the addictive potential ., and have tended to blame “addiction” on the patient, offering no real help.

The risk with drug use is that it tends to promote self-focused isolation, increasingly locking us into our “issues”and it does not contribute, in any way, to a healthy resolution of our problems.

To get to the root of and eradicate our negativity, our pain and our drug dependence, we need a fully comprehensive treatment program that has the power to enable a complete separation between “us”, and our drug use, so that we can begin to deal with our emotions and conflicts.

Choosing a fully comprehensive program that enables complete detoxification from drugs, that enables us to experience and feel the causes of our pain, in a supported and safe environment, enables us to work with the issues, and to become healthy again.

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Comprehensive alcohol and drug abuse programs enable us to fully separate from the habitual and compulsive behaviors that we use to mask and “live with” our feelings of negativity.

There is a world outside the self imposed box of negativity, pain and drug use – that invites you to come out – and participate in real self empowerment, contentment and happiness.

Comprehensive drug programs enable people to rebuild genuine self esteem, and take away away our attachment to all negativity in in our life.

Graduates of comprehensive drug programs have a positive, and constructive approach to living a new drug free and happy life – regaining the will to live.

When doctors were mandated to consider “pain management” as an ancilliary treatment, they have been happy enough to consult a pain management directory of assorted drugs, and to make a selection.

By using authorized, prescription drugs, doctors, in one move, have been able to get rid of the pain in their patient, and the problem that they have to deal with – “pain management” in society.

Addiction, deaths and dependency, inadequate coverage of pain has been the inevitable consequence of this inappropriate, but politically sanctioned “stab in the dark” at the broad and complex field of pain treatment, healing and recovery.

Doctors are not to blame. This responsibility for “pain management” was somewhat thrust upon them, making pain management their professional duty and obligation, a task for which most doctors, by their training were singularly ill equipped.

Not many doctors knew much about pain, not many knew much about the available drugs.

No doctors in terms of their medical school training had any expertise whatsoever in preventative and alternative pain treatments, relief and healing, as being preferable to pain “management”.

Like ducks to the water, like lambs to the slaughter – people came in with their pain, and got given a painkilling drug by their doctor – and everyone was happy.

As soon as addiction, deaths and dependency, and lack of effective pain relief became “live” issues in the management of pain, everyone involved in the “drug regime” has gone ducking for cover. In truth, narcotics for general use should never have been approved.

Funding for pain management should have been redirected towards the development of drug free natural options – that enable the causes of pain to be explored, that enable pain recovery by the enhancement of good health and healing.

Instead we fester and suffer on under a narcotic drug regime, that indoctrinates people, both patients and doctors, into believing that if you have pain, you need an opiate drug.

You can overdose on and become addicted to OxyContin when using it as prescribed, it will depend on the integrity, experience and drug awareness of your prescribing doctor. If this occurs, you will bear the consequences. It is highly unlkely that a prescribing doctor will be reprimanded at all. You are expected to put up with side effects, on the basis, that all drugs come with those.

You will not be fully informed about, or encouraged to use non-narcotic, natural alternatives to drugs, as a primary means of treatment and possible recovery from your pain, when you see a doctor who operates under government funded health care and pain “management” options.

You will simply be re-assured about the efficacy of drugs, and prescribed some new variation to your pain medication, if it seems to be causing complications. You don’t have many options in the context of an enforced drug regime.

There are many people today, on drugs, in pain, who are deeply dissatisified with their outcome – the drugs have failed to live up to their promise, of painfree, happy living, the patient has failed to achieve recovery from his pain. Life appears to be more of an endurance trial, than happy, contented living.

This scenario can apply to people who take prescription drugs for their physical pain, it can also apply to those who take antidepressants and similar medications to overcome emotional.pain.

You would think that people in such circumstances would welcome, listen to and evaluate any suggestion, by anyone that might alleviate their condition. But the answer is often that many people in pain, dependent upon, yet unhappy with their drug taking, impulsively lash out at, and reject any suggestion that they need to reconsider and implement a more healthy lifestyle.

The truth is that such people are often depressed. They have had enough troubles in their life, and have had enough of their troubles.

The pain they now endure, really is the last straw – all that they want, is for all of the pain that they have, to be completely taken away. Drugs appear to be and are promoted as being their best option.

Using drugs brings a sense of empowerment, over painful life experiences, to people who are depressed. Drug use does bring relief of a sort, but it is an illusion of control.

Depression is a cause of pain, and pain a cause of depression. People locked into this cycle, by the dead hand of drug dependence, often don’t want to get out. They know that they are on the road to nowhere, but feel it is too hard to get out.

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Giving up drugs will expose them to the full force of a pain that they simply do not want to suffer from, or to deal with any more.

People is such a situation have the option, to remain with the status quo – their depression, their drugs, and their pain.

Or they can choose a fully comprehensive addiction recovery program that enables complete detoxification from drugs, that enables us to experience and feel the causes of our pain, in a supported and safe environment, that enables us to work with the issues, and to become healthy again.

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There is a world outside the self imposed box of negativity, pain and drug use - that invites you to come out – and participate in real self empowerment, contentment and happiness.

Graduates of comprehensive drug programs have a positive, and constructive approach to living a new drug free and happy life.

It is alleged that millions of people live with chronic pain, in agony, due to the fact that many doctors today are too afraid to prescribe painkillers to their patients, at levels to quell their pain.

They fear harassment, or possible charges and imprisonment at the hands of the DEA.

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Spokesman for the afflicted is Sam Kazman, general counsel of the Competetive Enterprises Institute that promotes free trade, and limited government interference. Sam Kazman sees

modern science and the drugs that it promotes as being “under siege” from people who seek to put personal experience and testimonials “above” the results of scientific studies.

Medical science sees itself as being fettered by a public that is scientifically illiterate, and a media that seeks sensation – apparently the position is not helped by the fact that even some scientists fail to truly understand the scientific method.

Medical science, despite considerable empirical, and more recently, experimental evidence to the contrary promotes opioid pain killers such as OxyContin as being a legitimate pain medication that is completely safe when used as prescribed.

Back in 1996, OxyContin swept onto the market, heralded as an opioid that was safe to use as a prescription, self adminstered long term drug for the treatment of moderate and severe chronic pain. The risks of tolerance and possible addiction were fully understood at the time by experts in the field. It was hoped that the OxyContin slow release function would overcome these issues.

OxyContin ER was in fact a bi-phasic release that gave a person an initial surge of strong pain relief, but which as formulated by the manufacturer, failed to provide sustained pain relief for the stipulated 12 hour period.

Whilst it true that genuine pain sufferers are not going to their doctors like illicit users do, to get an Oxy “fix” – they are demanding higher doses of the drug, and a continued supply because:

a) continued use of opioids tends over time to exacerbate symptoms of pain – these patients often have more pain than they started with, at the original site of “injury” and in other places,

b) opioids don’t assist or promote healing of degenerative conditions, therefore a person’s actual symptoms might be worse as a result of neglect of more positive treatment options, due to the apparent “respite” from pain offered by opioid medications,

c) tolerance of the narcotic means that a person needs to use more of the drug to get similar pain relief, the drug becomes less effective,

d) depletion of biochemicals as direct result of the cycle of drug administration and withdrawal means that the body and mind are less able to self regulate for mood, and physical side effects – higher doses of the drug appears to users to compensate for increasing disequilibrium, needing more of the drug, just to help them feel “normal”.

In virtually all users OxyContin will produce a physically painless state and an emotional “high”, the intensity of relief will depend on the depth of prior suffering.

Opioid withdrawal brings a person down – pain returns and the euphoria subsides.

It would take some time for the body and mind to re-establish natural equilibrium after an opioid dose, and the reality is that we would prefer not to go back to our pain and our sorrows after our opioid “holiday”.

We don’t care if it is only an illusion of health and happiness – we want the feeling that we get when the opioids are our system, and so we use the opioid again, and become dependent.

In truth there is little severe, ongoing pain in the healthy human body. The intensity of pain after injury is modified by the body, as part of the healing process, once the pain signals have done their job of alerting the body to an area of damage that is in need of healing. Our thoughts can both inhibit and enhance the experience of pain.

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It is when drugs are used to disrupt the healthy signaling of pain, that the body becomes confused as to what exactly is happening. Tissue damage demands repair, but the innervation that should be telling the CNS and brain exactly what is wrong, when drugged, appears to be dead. The body also regards the toxic drug as a pathogen that needs to be neutralized.

Therefore people who have been using narcotics for pain relief for years should not be surprised to find that their original condition has not improved. They will find that over time the drugs do not cover their pain, and the toxicity of the drugs they are using can cause all manner of apparently unrelated effects, such as constipation, weak bones, chronic fatigue, depression, and feelings of general malaise.

There is only one way out from the politics of  Oxy despair – other than overdose, and that is to cease to claim victim status in the issue, and stop clamoring for “more” of the drugs.

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People with pain, on opioids need to put a stop to their drug use, and start using natural pain relief options to restore their body to health.

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Comprehensive addiction recovery centers can help you achieve natural pain relief and complete opioid addiction recovery.

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