New Jersey hospital opting for holistic treatment in the emergency room instead of using deadly, addictive opiods
by: David Gutierrez
NaturalNews.com
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Back in January, the emergency department of the St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson, New Jersey – about 20 miles from New York City – launched an innovative program to help stem the tide of narcotic painkiller addiction and abuse. The department has adopted a deliberate policy to avoid prescribing opiate painkillers whenever possible, instead using alternative methods to manage patient pain.
“All chronic pain starts with acute pain,” said Mark Rosenberg, the hospital’s chairman of emergency medicine. “If we can stop using opioids before we give the first dose, then people won’t become addicted.”
More lethal than car accidents
Narcotics, also known as opioids, are highly potent but very addictive painkillers in the family that includes morphine and codeine, as well as street drugs such as opium and heroin. The more limited term “opiate” is used to refer exclusively to medical drugs, primarily used as painkillers.
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