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Opioid Crisis and Pain Classifications
Opioid Crisis and Pain Classifications
Opioid Crisis
The rate of overdose deaths from opioids has risen over 165,000 since 1999.
Drug overdose deaths continue to increase in the United States.
- From 1999 to 2017, more than 700,000 people have died from a drug overdose.
- Around 68% of the more than 70,200 drug overdose deaths in 2017 involved an opioid.
- In 2017, the number of overdose deaths involving opioids (including prescription opioids and illegal opioids like heroin and illicitly manufactured fentanyl) was 6 times higher than in 1999.
- On average, 130 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose
About 100,000 patients have been hospitalized for gastrointestinal complications due to NSAID use.
Over-the-counter pain medications (NSAIDS – linked to heart problems)
- Aspirin has broad range of side effects – gastric ulcers to cerebral bleeding, H. pylori, even heart problems
- Ibuprofen has been linked to anemia, hypertension, DNA damage.
- Tylenol – leading cause of acute liver failure
Pain Classification
Nociceptive – normal response to harmful stimuli or injury. Example – joint pain or referred pain from organ
Neuropathic – caused by lesion or disease in the somatosensory nervous system. Perceived as numbness, hypersensitivity, and paresthesia. Example – (not limited to) – diabetic neuropathy, spinal cord injury, phantom limb
Inflammatory – result of activation and sensitization of nociceptive pain by mediators released at a site of tissue inflammation. Example – appendicitis, RA, IBD, herpes zoster
Pain is a multidimensional phenomenon. It grabs your attention and produces strong emotional reactions that adversely affect a patient’s function, quality of life, emotional state, social and vocational status, and general well-being.
Along with chiropractic and acupuncture care, Naturopathic Medicine helps address pain and inflammation in a holistic way. The combination of all these therapies may help for a speedy, efficient, and natural recovery without resorting to conventional treatments.
Make an appointment with Dr. Humaira to get to the root cause of your pain and alleviate it naturally.
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201-286-0408
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