When most people think of pain relief, they assume ingesting a pill is the only option. However, there are many topical pain relievers on the market today such as ointments and patches. Topical Pain relievers are applied locally to skin or to specialized compartments of the body to modify pain by actions on sensory nerve endings and/or adjacent cellular elements. With this approach, there are low systemic drug levels, good tolerability, low addiction rates, and few drug interactions.
With many alternatives to narcotic pain relievers we are still seeing a wide range of our country addicted today. Read through these staggering facts before you decide a pill is the only option to get relief.
Opioid Addiction Facts:
- Opioids are any of various compounds that bind to specific receptors in the central nervous system and have analgesic (pain relieving) effects including prescription medications such as oxycodone and hydrocodone and illicit substances such as heroin.
- Opioid addiction is federally described as a progressive, treatable brain disease.
- Any type of opioid can trigger latent chronic addiction brain disease.
- 24.6 million people 12 or older (9.4% of the population) live with substance dependence or abuse.
- 1.9 million Americans live with prescription opioid abuse or dependence.
- Opioid addiction disease occurs in every American State, County, socio-economic and ethnic group.
- 23% of heroin users develop chronic opioid addiction disease first.
National Opioid Overdose Epidemic:
- Over 100 Americans died from overdose deaths each day in 2013.
- 46 Americans die each day from prescription opioid overdoses; two deaths an hour, 17,000 annually.
- While illicit opioid heroin poisonings increased by 12.4% from 1999 to 2002, the number of prescription opioid analgesic poisonings in the United States increased by 91.2% during that same time period.
- Drug overdose was the leading cause of injury death in 2013, greater than car accidents and homicide.
- About 75% of opioid addiction disease patients switch to heroin as a cheaper opioid source.
- In 2012, 259 million opioid pain medication prescriptions were written, enough for every adult in America to have a bottle of pills.
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