Meditation For Pain: Living With Pain

According to a survey from The Medical Expenditure Panel, around 100 million American adults are affected by chronic pain. There are other studies which have discounted arthritis and joint pain and still suggest that 15% of adult Americans are dealing with chronic pain.

It’s a common affliction for many and it is life-altering. Chronic pain patients may have to give up work, their favorite hobbies, physical activities, and they often struggle with sleeping which means increased pain and difficulty getting through their day (whether at work or not).

Additionally, it has a severe impact on the economy. Chronic pain is believed to cost the United States over $600 billion every year, which far exceeds the healthcare costs of cancer, cardiovascular diseases, and injuries.

The costs don’t just stem from managing the pain, but the conditions that the pain stems from and the complications caused by chronic pain.

Chronic pain is notoriously difficult to manage and the go-to answer for anything pain related is a prescription narcotic, or opiate. Opiates affect the brain in a way that helps relieve pain, and as a side effect produces a feeling of euphoria.

You know that heroin is a narcotic, but did you realize that morphine, oxycodone, and methadone are, too?

The latter is responsible for more deaths than heroin and in the US, according to the CDC, a third of painkiller overdoses involve the drug.

While in the United Kingdom methadone is used specifically to help heroin addicts wean off the substance, the US still prescribes it as a painkiller.

Instructions from the CDC has reduced this use of methadone, unfortunately, it is still in use as a painkiller.

It should come as no surprise then that the US is facing a serious opioid epidemic that is gripping the entire country. It may have started in New England, but it has spread from the east coast like wildfire and is rampant in all 50 states.

In 2016 alone over 50,000 Americans died as the result of opioid overdoses. Many of those affected by the crisis were prescribed a painkiller to manage pain, and it spiraled out of control.

While these drugs may be effective in reducing pain, they also cloud the thought process, leave patients operating below their normal capabilities, and increase the risk of addiction and substance abuse problems.

You can learn much more here about using meditation and other alternative health remedies in my online guide https://www.discoveryhub.net/how-to-improve-pain-management.html



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