Nobody Has An Opioid Deficiency: How Conventional Medicine Continues To Get It Wrong

<p>In the world of chronic pain, the reliance on opioids has become a default, but the question remains: Are opioids truly the answer to chronic pain? So much has been done to slow the opioid epidemic, but much needs to be done still. Especially for such an ineffective means to treat chronic pain.</p> <h2>The Opioid Conundrum</h2> <p>The prevailing wisdom in conventional medicine often defaults to opioid prescriptions when grappling with chronic pain. However, a critical realization needs to be made &mdash; nobody has an opioid deficiency! Our bodies produce opioids naturally, and the root cause of chronic pain doesn&rsquo;t lie in a scarcity of opioids. Sure there are things we can do to help our body create more opioids, but the problem rarely lays in the quantity of our opioids.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@dr_winkelmann/nobody-has-an-opioid-deficiency-how-conventional-medicine-continues-to-get-it-wrong-dda6efc4fcd7"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>