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An evidence-based guide to using cannabis to enhance pain relief safely, effectively, and economically while reducing the risks of opioid addiction.
Opioid addiction has exploded to epidemic proportions in the US. Drug overdose is now the leading cause of accidental death. In 2012, 259 million prescriptions were written for opioids - more than enough to give every American adult his or her own bottle of pills.Â
Uwe Blesching, author of The Cannabis Health Index, clearly and thoroughly lays out the overwhelming benefits of using cannabis - not only to reduce the nation's dependence on opioids - but also to manage the craving and withdrawal symptoms of opioid addiction, and especially to address the pain that leads to drug use and addiction in the first place.Â
Citing statistics showing that states allowing legal access to cannabis have seen a 25 percent drop in opioid-related deaths, Blesching explains how precision applications of cannabis can alleviate the mental and emotional aspects of pain by modulating numerous neurotransmitters and their emotional counterparts. He presents a convincing case for the powerful benefits of cannabis in reducing the risks of addiction and overdose, cutting monetary costs, and restoring a sense of balance and control to those who struggle with pain.
PDF Breaking the Cycle of Opioid Addiction Supplement Your Pain Management with Cannabis Audible Audio Edition Uwe Blesching Sam Scholl Random House Audio Books
"I very rarely give 5 star reviews to any book, and while this book might not be the perfect book in the literal sense, it is so needed in today's day and age that I had to give it five stars. The information is invaluable. Books like these is why I think all states should legalize commercial sales of marijuana. In Florida it's legal for medical purposes but doctor's fees are an arm and a leg and I don't know of a single insurance that will cover it and prices are ridiculous. If it were available commercially (for recreation) people would be able to manage their own pain without having to turn to drugs like oxycodone.
I was first prescribed oxycodone over a decade ago, after I was trampled by a horse I was training. I had severe soft tissue damage and a leg that was broken in half and needed surgery with a plate and pins. That was my first encounter with this medication. About two years later I developed severe arthritis, polymyalgia rheumatica, and ankylosing spondylitis. My doctors' answers were to put me on oxycodone long term. Again, about a decade ago. At this time I was living in the Chicago area where it was never a problem filling my scripts, but I was experiencing side effects. I was emotionally numb. My sex drive had gone away completely. I didn't feel much pain but I didn't feel much of anything. As time went on doses increased. I moved to Florida where a doctor decided to put me on Fentanyl instead of oxycodone. Then I changed doctors because I didn't like his staff and that doctor decided buprenorphine which did absolutely nothing for my pain but gave me bad side effects. The genius doctors then decided to put me on oxyodone again with dilauded for breakthrough pain. At this point I was taking 180 mg of oxycodone a day plus dilauded for breakthrough pain. Mind you, I was told I would never become addicted to oxycodone if I took it as prescribed. I pointed this out when I had gone two days without my medications and got very sick and my doctor said I wasn't addicted. I was opiate dependent. Sorry, to me it's all the same thing. If I can't take a medication and not take it for a couple of days without experiencing hellish withdrawals, I fell that's addiction and I wanted nothing to do with it. I told him to wean me off. He refused. I finally found a wonderful doctor who was willing to help wean me off of the opiates. It took a year, and it was hell, but today I don't take any type of opiate medication at all. I WISH I had this book when I was going through that. It would have saved me a lot of pain and suffering. The good news is that this book helped me realize I don't have to suffer and live in pain just because I don't want to be on opiates. Marijuana is a good alternative. The book was so informative and factual in an easy to understand manner, I am actually making an appointment to get the medical card since I have a number of conditions that qualify me for it.
If you're addicted to opiates, know anyone who is, need pain relief and don't want that horrid addiction or the side effects, I'd recommend this book to anyone. It is so informative and helpful and helps you truly understand the nature of what is going on, why it is happening, and what you can do about it. I applaud the author for taking on the challenge of this book. Very well done."
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Breaking the Cycle of Opioid Addiction Supplement Your Pain Management with Cannabis Audible Audio Edition Uwe Blesching Sam Scholl Random House Audio Books Reviews :
Breaking the Cycle of Opioid Addiction Supplement Your Pain Management with Cannabis Audible Audio Edition Uwe Blesching Sam Scholl Random House Audio Books Reviews
- A well written and timely analysis of two important health issues of the day the opioid crisis and cannabis revolution.
Thanks to Dr. Blesching for writing this in the spirit of self empowerment. - I very rarely give 5 star reviews to any book, and while this book might not be the perfect book in the literal sense, it is so needed in today's day and age that I had to give it five stars. The information is invaluable. Books like these is why I think all states should legalize commercial sales of marijuana. In Florida it's legal for medical purposes but doctor's fees are an arm and a leg and I don't know of a single insurance that will cover it and prices are ridiculous. If it were available commercially (for recreation) people would be able to manage their own pain without having to turn to drugs like oxycodone.
I was first prescribed oxycodone over a decade ago, after I was trampled by a horse I was training. I had severe soft tissue damage and a leg that was broken in half and needed surgery with a plate and pins. That was my first encounter with this medication. About two years later I developed severe arthritis, polymyalgia rheumatica, and ankylosing spondylitis. My doctors' answers were to put me on oxycodone long term. Again, about a decade ago. At this time I was living in the Chicago area where it was never a problem filling my scripts, but I was experiencing side effects. I was emotionally numb. My sex drive had gone away completely. I didn't feel much pain but I didn't feel much of anything. As time went on doses increased. I moved to Florida where a doctor decided to put me on Fentanyl instead of oxycodone. Then I changed doctors because I didn't like his staff and that doctor decided buprenorphine which did absolutely nothing for my pain but gave me bad side effects. The genius doctors then decided to put me on oxyodone again with dilauded for breakthrough pain. At this point I was taking 180 mg of oxycodone a day plus dilauded for breakthrough pain. Mind you, I was told I would never become addicted to oxycodone if I took it as prescribed. I pointed this out when I had gone two days without my medications and got very sick and my doctor said I wasn't addicted. I was opiate dependent. Sorry, to me it's all the same thing. If I can't take a medication and not take it for a couple of days without experiencing hellish withdrawals, I fell that's addiction and I wanted nothing to do with it. I told him to wean me off. He refused. I finally found a wonderful doctor who was willing to help wean me off of the opiates. It took a year, and it was hell, but today I don't take any type of opiate medication at all. I WISH I had this book when I was going through that. It would have saved me a lot of pain and suffering. The good news is that this book helped me realize I don't have to suffer and live in pain just because I don't want to be on opiates. Marijuana is a good alternative. The book was so informative and factual in an easy to understand manner, I am actually making an appointment to get the medical card since I have a number of conditions that qualify me for it.
If you're addicted to opiates, know anyone who is, need pain relief and don't want that horrid addiction or the side effects, I'd recommend this book to anyone. It is so informative and helpful and helps you truly understand the nature of what is going on, why it is happening, and what you can do about it. I applaud the author for taking on the challenge of this book. Very well done. - First of all I have to commend the author for doing an excellent job of engaging the reader. The research was done and the book thoroughly details the points to argue a very challenging topic. Opioid Addiction is a huge problem and while there have been many suggestions to reduce the problem, there really hasn't been a suggestion that dramatically reduces the problem. This book falls into that category also. The most common suggestion seems to always fall on another medication, drug, or "coping skill." Methadone has helped some. Suboxone has been somewhat effective. Vivitrol and Naltrexone seems to be helping. Non addictive or less addictive substances have had minimal success for pain and may have even resulted in people finding new medications to abuse. This book really didn't convince me that Cannabis would be any more effective than any of the other suggestions so far. Frankly, we look for a quick fix and never really get to the root of the problem. We continue to feed the addictive mentality by seeking the fix in another substance. We need to move away from substances and find out what is driving the mentality to have a substance to fix our uncomfortable feelings. I am not criticizing this authors work because I felt this book was very well written and thought provoking. In fact, I highly recommend everyone get this book and read it simply to think outside of the box.
- This book accurately and effectively shares a research based, medical approach for treating The Opioid Crisis. It was refreshing to read something direct and thoroughly, properly researched. Bleshing's writing style is well thought out and intelligent. He offers an integrative medicinal approach for a problem that so many people are struggling with... Overall, the issues with opioids need to be managed better. Treatment centers need to be created in regions where its hardest hit by the epidemic. We should recognize the potential role of medical marijuana in helping ease people off opioids. Lastly, we need to find a more humane approach to addiction as a whole. All of these programs could easily be funded with tax revenues from marijuana legalization. Bleshing has written a great solution to help us reduce the risks of addiction.
- I found this book to be a detailed overview on the topic of opioid addiction. It features chapters on the history of the opioid crisis, the science of opioids, cannabis and pain, contrasting cannabis and opioids in pain management, opioid withdrawal, the endocannabinoid system, determining vulnerabilities to addiction and developing one's defenses, and rethinking the idea of euphoria being a side effect. Despite being brief (only about two hundred pages), I found this book to be informative, and with a scientific/academic tone to it. There's a long bibliography featured at the end, so it's also clear that it's been well-researched. Opioid abuse is a popular problem that has been covered in depth by the mass media for a while now, without being fully explained. This book was rather good in shining a light on it.
