Are you in pain and dealing with chronic pain issues, but are afraid of becoming addicted to pain medications? If so then contact Soothing the Soles to schedule an appointment today to begin Holistic Pain Management therapies. There is hope and help. You do not need to suffer needlessly. Services may include CBD Oils, Healing Touch, ear acupuncture and ear seeds, Reflexology, as well as referrals to several other practitioners such as Chiropractic care, coaching, hypnosis, holistic allergy therapy, yoga and pain management physicians. Health and wellness is within you, let us help you thrive! The American Holistic Nurses Association (AHNA) has created a “Holistic Pain Relief Toolkit” to educate and support nurses in the use of evidence-based nonpharmacologic approaches in their nursing practice and self-care. http://www.ahna.org/Home/Resources/Holistic-Pain-Tools According to the American Society of Drug Addictions (ASAM), drug overdose is the leading cause of accidental death in the US, with 52,404 lethal drug overdoses in 2015. Opioid addiction is driving this epidemic, with 20,101 overdose deaths related to prescription pain relievers, and 12,990 overdose deaths related to heroin in 2015. 5 • From 1999 to 2008, overdose death rates, sales and substance use disorder treatment admissions related to prescription pain relievers increased in parallel. The overdose death rate in 2008 was nearly four times the 1999 rate; sales of prescription pain relievers in 2010 were four times those in 1999; and the substance use disorder treatment admission rate in 2009 was six times the 1999 rate. 6 • In 2012, 259 million prescriptions were written for opioids, which is more than enough to give every American adult their own bottle of pills.7 • Four in five new heroin users started out misusing prescription painkillers. 8 • 94% of respondents in a 2014 survey of people in treatment for opioid addiction said they chose to use heroin because prescription opioids were “far more expensive and harder to obtain.”
Reference: American Society of Drug Addictions (ASAM) Opioid Addiction 2016 Facts and Figures (https://www.asam.org/docs/default-source/advocacy/opioid-addiction-disease-facts-figures.pdf)