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Meditation for Pain- An Alternative to Drugs

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Could mindfulness meditation replace opioid-based pain relief and lower addiction rates? This post from Medical Daily puts forward the case for mindfulness meditation as an effective treatment for chronic pain. Opioid painkillers are a double-edged sword. On one hand, they reduce chronic pain, which plagues around 100 million Americans. Yet they can also lead to abuse of ... Continue Reading

How Prescription Painkillers Kill and Their Non-Drug Alternatives

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This article reports a five-fold increase in deaths from prescription painkiller overdoses among women from 1999 to 2010 and looks into the possible reasons as well safe alternatives. Deaths from prescription painkiller overdoses are “skyrocketing” among women, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that found such deaths have ... Continue Reading

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