Unfortunately, many people think that these medications are going to make them addicts. 
Very few chronic pain sufferers become addicted. They will become dependent on the medication, and will experience withdrawal if they stop their medications suddenly.

Addiction is very different and is more an emotional behavioural problem.

Pain patients can safely take opioids for life if necessary with no damage to organs or to tissues.

Opioid medications do not work for everybody, and are often just one part of a pain management program.

If opioid medications reduce pain, increase function and improve quality of life then it is an option worth trying.
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You usually need a referral to a pain clinic.

If you are getting no help from family doctor, it is a reasonable request to ask for a referral to a 

pain clinic.

If the wait is long, send a letter to the provincial health minister and your MLA         
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Phone the College of Physicians for a list of docs who treat chronic pain, and who take new patients. need list of colleges (web sites links etc

On The Chronic Pain Association of Canada.com find a local support group and contact leader s and ask for names of Doctors or pain clinics in your area 

Phone CPAC’s office   :1-780-482-6727 (collect) and ask for names of pain services or pain specialists in your area. or email 
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When pain continues, there are changes that occur to our pain messaging system.

refer to your pain identifcation document

If you relate our bodies to a computer, the bones, muscles, organs and tissues are the hard drive. The hard drive is easy to visualize, with tests, x-rays, and examinations. The soft ware is our pain messaging system and there are no tests or methods to see the soft ware.

When pain continues in our body, there are changes that happen to our pain messaging system and these changes make chronic pain a disease and no longer a symptom.

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Unfortunately, many people think that these medications are going to make them addicts. 
Very few chronic pain sufferers become addicted. They will become dependent on the medication, and will experience withdrawal if they stop their medications suddenly.

Addiction is very different and is more an emotional behavioural problem.

Pain patients can safely take opioids for life if necessary with no damage to organs or to tissues.

Opioid medications do not work for everybody, and are often just one part of a pain management program.

If opioid medications reduce pain, increase function and improve quality of life then it is an option worth trying.
11 Comments
 
 
You usually need a referral to a pain clinic.

If you are getting no help from family doctor, it is a reasonable request to ask for a referral to a 

pain clinic.

If the wait is long, send a letter to the provincial health minister and your MLA         
1 Comment
 
 
Phone the College of Physicians for a list of docs who treat chronic pain, and who take new patients. need list of colleges (web sites links etc

On The Chronic Pain Association of Canada.com find a local support group and contact leader s and ask for names of Doctors or pain clinics in your area 

Phone CPAC’s office   :1-780-482-6727 (collect) and ask for names of pain services or pain specialists in your area. or email 
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When pain continues, there are changes that occur to our pain messaging system.

refer to your pain identifcation document

If you relate our bodies to a computer, the bones, muscles, organs and tissues are the hard drive. The hard drive is easy to visualize, with tests, x-rays, and examinations. The soft ware is our pain messaging system and there are no tests or methods to see the soft ware.

When pain continues in our body, there are changes that happen to our pain messaging system and these changes make chronic pain a disease and no longer a symptom.

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