The Coleman Institute Blog

A patient shared this story and this question with me a few weeks ago:

"I've been working with a doctor to find a solution for my back pain for the past two years. I tried every treatment in the book from physical therapy, to ibuprofen, to cortisone injections. After months of consulting with my doctor, we arrived at the perfect regimen to reduce pain: one tablet of acetaminophen-oxycodone, a potent opioid, in the morning and one tablet of acetaminophen-oxycodone at night."

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Because older detoxification techniques were often painful and unsuccessful, addiction medicine researchers wanted a better approach. By the 1980s, these researchers pioneered the Anesthesia Detox. This treatment method has many names and variations, including:

I heard from Ken yesterday. Ken completed an Accelerated Opiate Detox with us about 5 weeks earlier. The burden lifted from his shoulders is immense.

“I want you to understand, I am not an addict,” Rebecca (not her real name), a 32-year-old social worker calling from Philadelphia, spoke emphatically into the phone.

“The pain I have is 100% legitimate and I work with a pain management specialist who is well respected. He warned me that if I spoke to a detox center, they would pigeonhole me as an addict. I simply can’t get off my pain medication by myself; I have tried and tried, and I get too ill…and then I give up.”

She was quiet for a moment and then softly began to cry. “My husband and I want to have a baby and I don’t want to be on this damn medication if I get pregnant.”