Pain Medicine Intervention
Most people at some point in their life are prescribed pain medication for one reason or another, dentist, broken bone, etc. However for some people it is not as simple as taking them and walking away, some people get addicted. For the ones who become addicted they almost always need some form of pain medicine intervention to stop. The reason why they need the pain medicine intervention to stop is because, psychologically for the substance abuser, their 
name is on the bottle, they think, or maybe do have a legitimate pain issue, and feel they have to take the medication. Most people we have faced at a pain medicine intervention are people who are not necessarily in as much pain as they think they are. In fact, it is not uncommon for us to see during pain medicine intervention substance abusers on extremely powerful narcotics like Oxycontin, Dilaudid, or Morphine for a back injury or something else that almost never warrants that powerful of a drug. Those drugs listed are for cancer pain and post surgery. Pain medicine intervention sees many people who are on pain medications that doctors just handed out like candy. The biggest pain complaint we see with pain medicine intervention is Fibromyalgia, which is a medical condition that can not be explained or cured. Because of this, drug seekers come up with this complaint and doctors just keep feeding pain killers to them, when in most cases sadly enough, there is not much wrong other than the dependency on the pain medication.
Intervention for Pain Killer Addiction
Pain killer addiction is extremely powerful almost always requiring a medical detox and long term treatment to help addicts stop. Over the years of pain medicine intervention we have witnessed a very interesting thing from the people we help later on in their sobriety. Almost all of the pain killer addicts, after two or three months of treatment, tell us that the pain they are having at that present time is nowhere near as bad as it was or what they thought it was. Some have even told us they are no longer in pain after stopping the pain medication. The point is, when a person is taking large amounts of pain medicine over time, it actually creates more pain because the bodies natural pain reliever starts to slow down making people feel like are in much more pain than they actually are. Add the psychological "I am in pain and need my meds" into this mix and you have one heck of a physical and mental addiction to treat. This is why it is so important to bring in a professional pain medicine intervention counselor who can not only educate you on how to handle your loved one but also be able to talk the talk with your loved one. No one can truly understand what a pain killer addict is going through better than someone who has walked in their shoes.
Pain Medicine Intervention Program
If your loved one is addicted to pain medicine, it is extremely important that you step in to help. It is highly unlikely a pain killer addict will just wake up one day and say "I have had enough, I quit". We educate families during the pain medicine intervention program and explain to them the danger their loved ones are in physically, emotionally, and legally. Most pain killer addicts are doctor shopping (seeing numerous doctors at the same time), turning in fake prescriptions, or both. This is illegal with a good chance of landing your loved one in jail where they will get almost no help, other than a detox. If the family does not step in with a pain medicine intervention on their terms there will be an intervention on someone elses terms. The end result for any substance abuser who does not get help is a jail, an institution, or even worse death.
