Beyond Pain Killers: How Chiropractic Treatments Can Reduce Opioid Use
Explore the benefits of chiropractic treatments as an alternative to opioid use in our latest blog, “Beyond Pain Killers”. Discover how these natural, non-invasive techniques can effectively alleviate pain and potentially reduce reliance on medication.
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Opiates vs. Opioids: What’s the Difference?
Opioids and opiates have caused millions of people looking for pain relief to enter a cycle of addiction. The scary part is that many people dying from opioids aren’t recreational drug users looking for the next high; they were people prescribed these drugs by their doctors to treat chronic pain. To understand how this epidemic
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Beyond the Pill: Non-Opioid Care for Chronic Pain
If you’re dealing with chronic pain, now is the time to tackle it naturally. But how do you deal with chronic pain without using opioid pain medication? One of the problems with pain medications is that they only treat the symptoms; they aren’t doing anything to resolve the source of your pain. If you are
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The Chronic Pain Crisis is the Opioid Crisis
For decades, opioids were marketed as a “safer” alternative to treat chronic pain. And as the number of people with chronic pain began to rise, so did the number of people addicted toand dying from prescription opioids. The chronic pain epidemic has evolved into our current opioid crisis. To address the opioid crisis, we must
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The Opioid Crisis: How Did We End Up Here?
About 30 years ago, there was a fundamental shift in medicine regarding how pain was understood and treated. The number of people with chronic pain seemed to rise, and it was thought that the options to address the pain weren’t adequate. As doctors paid more attention to assessing pain, they also paid more attention to