Opiate addicts

Regarding physical pain and emotional pain in former opiate addicts.Thoughts?-
First, I've felt pain cause depression and a feeling of helplessness until it goes away in time.
Norepinephrine and Seratonin reuptake inhibitors [increases the concentrations of Norepinephrine and Seratonin in the blood] such as Duloxetine [Cymbalta], an antidepressant, and Tramadol, a pain medication work in this way. Because they are effective, it's theorized that depression coexists to a very high degree in people with chronic pain.
Another concept is that during opiate addiction, the frontal lobe becomes quiet, and the normal mechanisms of danger, protection, and judgement lose their way, as other parts of the brain that mediate addiction take over. It takes 6 mos to a year for the frontal lobe to regain it's function during recovery including the ability to experience pleasure WITHOUT substances (you've all heard this before?), -
depression is very normal during this transition and needs to be treated with on-going therapy and in severe cases-medication. Close relationships have shown to have the biggest impact process according to brain scanning. Don't feel pain in isolation.
The cult would fight my thoughts tooth and nail, no kidding. Most "groups" of the cult are against the meds, real pain management and would say "pray about it and call your sponsor"...

Sorry to ramble on and on avogadno, it's a touchy subject for me. (pain, AA and meds.)

of physicians severely withholding dosage amounts of pain medication to people who admit substance abuse problems in the past. It is a byproduct of the acceptance of the faulty 'disease' model, and does create real problems for people needing them after surgery or injury.

We also have the fictional account of one James Frey in his book 'Million Little Pieces' with the extensive, yet fabricated dental procedure. The recovery industry teaches the promotion of telling falsehoods, as long as they are faith promoting.

Also, we have continuing accounts of people being authoritatively counseled to stop taking prescribed medication, such as birth control pills, high blood pressure meds, and insulin as counseled by persons with NO MEDICAL TRAINING whatsoever.

All of these things need to be publicized.

His account seems quite plausible

Yes mate, major depression and maybe not hyper sensitive to pain but certainly scared by the thought of it, given sufficient time I adjusted back