For many, the last battle of surviving Leukemia or cancer, is overcoming dependency on Narcotics [Opiates] or other types of powerful pain medications. Through the process of pain management, becoming physically dependent on pain killers is more common than you would imagine.

Many well-meaning doctors continue to write their patient's prescriptions for pain pills far beyond what they should, rarely warning the patient that they will eventually become physically dependent. The Doc's intentions may be good, but the results can be disasterious. Before you know it, you are seeking alternate and additional sources of narcotics. This is the first sign of a[dependency] problems.
 
      Narcotic addiction falls in a bit of a different catagory. 
      There is a fine line between addiction and dependency.
      This website does not address addiction.

Because opiates are progressive, our body easily adapts to the current dosage. With each day that goes by, higher and higher doses are required to achieve the same level of pain management. This can all happen unconsciously, but it is happening none-the-less. Most people who take opiates for any extended period of time, will become dependent on them. This is fact whether they admit it to themselves or not. [However, if taken conservatively and only for the length of time that the actual pain exists, cessation is accomplished quite easily.]


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