You suffer an injury in a car accident, or have a simple slip and fall, or lift a box awkwardly at work, or strain a muscle while playing golf, or tennis or working out at the gym. Perhaps, you’re recovering from surgery, cancer treatment or severe arthritis.

In any case, your physician is likely to prescribe a painkiller to help you manage the discomfort. Yet weeks or months later - long after the initial injury may have healed - you’re still taking Vicodin®, Percocet®, OxyContin®; or other opioid painkillers. In fact, with the pain and discomfort becoming more frequent, you’re taking an alarmingly higher dosage than you were in the beginning.

Unfortunately, the very drug that was supposed to help you is now hurting you. The pain of the injury or the fear of medical treatment has been compounded by the painful discomfort of withdrawal. Rather than easing your pain, you are experiencing intensified pain levels. Patients suffering at pain levels of two or three often jump to pain levels of eight or nine after one year of painkiller usage.

This scenario is increasingly common. Today, approximately 65% of our patients suffer from a dependency to painkillers, whereas in years past dependencies to heroin were the most common.

Pain Management Traps

Research indicates that every year nearly two million Americans use prescription opioid painkillers, and in some communities, abuse of prescription painkillers has overtaken cocaine and marijuana use. The 2002 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (NHSDA) showed that approximately 9% of the U.S. population has used pain relievers illegally in their lifetime. An estimated 1.6 million Americans used prescription-type pain relievers non-medically for the first time in 1998. This represents a significant increase since the 1980s, when there were generally fewer than 500,000 new users per year.

Among youths aged 12-17, the incidence rate increased from 6.3 per 1,000 potential new users in 1990 to 32.4 per 1,000 potential new users in 1998. For young adults age 18-25, there was also an increase in the rate of first use between 1990 and 1998 (from 7.7 to 20.3 per 1,000 potential new users).

Advanced Treatment for Opiate Dependency

In response to these challenges, the Dr. Waismann ANR Method offers patients a highly successful procedure for the treatment of painkiller dependency. Not only does this procedure reverse opiate dependency, but it also eliminates the cravings that often accompany traditional detoxification treatments. The Dr.Waismann ANR Method has been clinically proven to be effective for a wide range of opiates including OxyContin®, Suboxone, Methadone, Codeine, Darvocet, Percocet®, Dilaudid®, Heroin, Hydrocodone, LAAM, Lorcet®, Lortab®, MS Contin®, Norco®, Percodan®, Stadol®, Tramadol, Vicodin®, Zydone® and others.