Why doesn the Pain Center believe in narcotic pain medications?
We believe that in the long run narcotics only make chronic pain worse. One reason is that narcotics interfere with your body’s production of endorphins, which are pain fighting chemicals that you produce naturally. The program is designed to maximize your production of endorphins through increasing your activity, as it is known that exercise will increase endorphin levels 2 to 3 fold. We will do our best to provide you with pain relief by other treatments and at the same time rid you of narcotic pain medication and its potential bad effects. We may need to prescribe other forms of medication to control anxiety and depression, and this will be necessary for your overall health. This may be temporary although it may be necessary to continue beyond the time of treatment here. Or it may be a long term program which will need to be carried out by your local treating physicians. There are some forms of pain which require pain medication of a non-narcotic type and this will be used if approp
