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spent 300$ on minor surgery today

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Title: Winter Break

Fandom: Leverage

Summary: The team find themselves snowed in in a little town in the middle of nowhere.

Author’s Note: Fair warning, I haven't written the rest of this story yet, and I'm not sure when I'll have a chance to finish it, but I thought the first scene was a good fit for the Comfortember prompt: exhaustion, so I'm going to go head and post it.

(Also, Sophie’s chapter is up next for Just a Call Away)

You can go here to read this on AO3 instead.

Eliot saw Hardison slump down into one of the hard terminal seats to his left and start punching away on his phone and didn’t even side eye him. There should have been at least a little spike of adrenaline in seeing him there when he definitely shouldn’t have been, but instead there was just a bone deep weariness that came with the knowledge that for Hardison to be there something had to be very wrong.

“I’m so sorry, sir,” the woman at the gate counter did her best to sound apologetic, but it was obvious she was just frazzled; two massive storm cells had re-routed seven flights to the little Podunk airport, and there were more people crowded into the terminals than the place probably saw in two or three months, “there’s just no way to tell when we’ll be able to start rebooking outgoing flights.”

“No worries, darling,” Eliot fell back into an easy drawl, too tired for much else, “can’t control the weather.”

It hurt slinging his bag over his shoulder and reaching down to grab his second bag was almost too much effort to be worth it, but he did anyway, with an easy smile at the gate worker and no sign of discomfort.

When he got to Hardison, he let his bags fall heavily to the ground, then dropped himself into the chair beside him, still not bothering to look at him.

“Who else is here?” he leaned forward, elbows on his knees and head bowed.

“Whole team,” Hardison continued tapping away on his phone.

“Fucking hell,” Eliot rubbed a hand over his face.

“You alright, man?” Hardison finally glanced over at him.

“What have you checked so far?” Eliot ignored the concern.

It went without saying that all five of them being re-routed to the same airport in the middle of nowhere couldn’t be a coincidence, especially given the fact that the last job had been rough enough for them to take the precaution of booking five different flights on their way out, with the plan to regroup back at HQ gradually over the next three or four days.

“Running checks on air control, pilots, and flight staff,” Hardison offered, “haven’t found anything yet.”

“Can you get into the air control logs?” Eliot forced down a shiver; the hoodie he was wearing was no match for how cold it was outside and how poorly the terminal was heated.

The way every movement sent sharp pain through his shoulder though made it very clear to him that it wasn’t worth it to dig his coat out of his bag. The over-the-counter pain killers he had taken right before his flight had long worn off, and what he really needed was a place to hole up so he could take a round of the prescription strength stuff and get some rest.

That ship, it seemed, had sailed, though. And then been sunk under a foot of snow.

“Here,” Hardison handed his phone over to him, all the officially logged information on the seven rerouted flights on display.

Eliot flipped through the information, checking and cross checking all of it. He forced himself to go more slowly than he usually would, aware of just how tired he was and how easy it would be to miss something or make a mistake, and mistakes just weren’t an option where the team’s safety was at stake.  

By the time he had listened to the exchanges between the tower and the pilots for all seven flights on Hardison’s earbuds, Nate had appeared, dropping down in the chair on Eliot’s other side, a paper cup of questionable coffee in one hand.

“Where are Parker and Sophie?” Eliot asked, his unease at their absence growing now that Nate had shown up and they still hadn’t; he knew they could take care of themselves, but that didn’t stop him from worrying.

“Trying to find a coffee stand that will make a decent cappuccino and let Parker put half a bottle of syrup in her hot chocolate,” Nate relaxed back in his chair, not looking particularly distressed by their current situation, “you want anything?”

“No,” even the idea of coffee made his stomach roll; he knew he needed to eat something to settle it, but eating sounded like a terrible idea at the moment.

“Find anything yet?” Nate looked at Hardison over Eliot’s hunched back.

“Nothing,” Hardison shook his head, “plus I still can’t find us anywhere to stay. Everything is full.”

“Eliot?” Nate asked, glancing down at his phone when Sophie texted him a warning that Parker had managed to put six extra pumps of mocha in her hot chocolate without the barista noticing.

Nate wasn’t sure if he should be impressed or terrified. He settled on asking Sophie to grab a bottle of Gatorade for Eliot, then slipped his phone back into his pocket.  

“Nothing,” Eliot handed Hardison’s phone back to him, then slumped forward again, “three of the re-routes were requested by the pilots, four of them were made by air control. They tried to re-route Sophie’s flight to a larger airport, but the storm shifted, and they had to send it here. The pilot on your flight was retired air force. He kept using air force codes and the tower was giving him shit about it. Hardison’s pilot kept flipping his call sign and his co-pilot kept cutting in to correct it. Re-routes all make sense for the way the two storm fronts are shaping up.”

“What does that mean?” Hardison glanced at Nate over Eliot’s back, a slight tip of his head in the hitter’s direction.

“It means that there’s nothing there,” Nate dropped his free hand to the back of Eliot’s neck and began kneading, “if they were trying to pull something, they would have made sure everything was perfect in the logs in case someone went back to review them. Which means everything is pointing to this just being a really weird coincidence.”

“There is no way this is a coincidence,” Eliot grumbled, grateful to have some of the tension finally ease out of his shoulders under Nate’s hand.

“The world is a strange place,” Sophie’s very expensive and highly inappropriate for snow storms shoes appeared in Eliot’s line of sight, “you look awful, sweetheart.”

She pressed a kiss to the top of his head before going to sit on Hardison’s other side, leaning over his shoulder and sipping her coffee as she watched him continued to try to find them a place to stay.

“Do you have any real shoes with you?” Eliot gripped at her.

“I’ll have you know, I could buy two sets of those fancy kitchen knives you love so much with what these shoes cost,” Sophie said in mock offense, “but I do have weather appropriate shoes if that’s what you’re asking. I’ll dig them out once we decide on our plan.”

Parker planted herself on the floor at Eliot’s feet and stared up at him, the line of chocolate on her top lip a clear indication that she had already managed to down her hot chocolate. Eliot just raised his eyebrows at her. He couldn’t deny, he felt better having all four of them close, knowing that at least they were in reach if something happened.

“Our plan is to find someplace to stay to wait out this storm,” Nate continued rubbing Eliot’s neck, “if the weather report is right, we could be stuck here for the next three or four days, and I don’t think any of us want to spend that long sleeping on airport benches.”

“Whatever we end up doing, we should stick together,” Eliot insisted.

Eliot knew he was paranoid, and he knew sometimes that paranoia was justified and sometimes it wasn’t. The problem was, it didn’t matter if there was actually someone out to get them, or he was just tired and his brain was defaulting to ‘danger,’ it all felt the same. It felt like his team was in trouble, and he needed to do something, needed to make sure they were safe.

“We are definitely sticking together,” Hardison grumbled, “I’ll be lucky if I can find even one room for us.”

“You hurt your shoulder again,” Parker frowned up at Eliot.

Nate’s hand went abruptly still on the back of his neck, and Eliot glared down at Parker. He had been careful about not showing the injury, but this was Parker, and her observation skills were frighteningly good. Her sense of tact, not so much.

“I just dislocated it,” Eliot did his best to sound dismissive, “it’s fine.”

“When did that happen?” Nate demanded.

“Does it matter?” Eliot was not interested in having this argument again.

“I need to know when you’re hurt on a job,” Nate squeezed his neck briefly, then went back to kneading at it.

“It’s fine. Popped it back in, no problem. It wasn’t worth throwing Sophie’s exit off for,” Eliot should really have straightened up and pulled away, but he couldn’t muster the energy to, “it happens… sometimes.”

He caught himself before he could say “all the time,” partly because that was definitely the wrong thing to say right now and partly because it wasn’t really true. There was permanent damage in his left shoulder that made it slightly more prone to dislocating, but it didn’t happen all the time.

“Tell me next time it happens,” Nate pulled his hand away, and it was everything Eliot could do not to follow it.

“You want me to tell you next time I skin my knee too?” the hitter asked peevishly.

“Yes!” the rest of his team chimed in.

“You’re all ridiculous,” Eliot grumbled at them, but he couldn’t help the quiet warmth that pooled in his chest.

“You should wear a sling after you dislocate it,” Parker leaned her head on his knee, still looking up at him, “it makes it feel better.”

“I don’t have a sling,” Eliot pointed out, “it’s fine.”

“You have pain meds,” Parker reached back to drag one of his bags closer.

“Need to eat something before I take any more,” Eliot used his foot to push the bag away from her; he would definitely end up retching if he tried to take even the over the counter stuff right now, and he’d rather not, “leave that alone. We need to figure out our next move.”

“You’re going to drink this,” Nate opened the Gatorade bottle Sophie had slipped him before handing it to Eliot, “and we’re going to have to think outside the box if we want to find a place to sleep tonight.”

Eliot glared at the radioactive yellow color, but took it anyway. Nate wasn’t wrong; he needed the fluids. He should have had Sophie grab him some tea though. Even crappy airport tea would have been better than Gatorade. He forced himself to finally sit up so he could drink, and Nate’s hand fell back to the nap of his neck and started kneading again. Eliot leaned back into it under the guise of settling into his chair more comfortably.

“We could buy a house,” Sophie suggested, only half joking.

“We could steal a house,” Parker grinned, head back to resting on Eliot’s knee, “that would be faster. Also more fun.”

“I could kick someone out of a room,” Hardison squinted at his phone, “but that seems like kind of a shitty thing to do.”

“Oh! Find someone who’s a jerk and kick them out,” Parker shifted so she could look at Hardison over Eliot’s knee, “then it would be okay, right Nate?”

“It would be… less not okay,” Nate offered, clearly amused, “but let’s call that plan D.”

“Can stealing a house be plan A?” Parker asked eagerly.

“No,” Nate snorted, “but it’s definitely ranking above sleeping in the airport for three days.”

“Sleeping in the airport better be plan Z.” Sophie huffed.

“No,” Hardison grinned, “plan Z has zombies.”

Eliot sipped at his Gatorade slowly, waiting to gauge how it would settle on an empty stomach, and tried to prioritize what they needed to do. Security and the team’s safety was always his first priority, but he needed to get his brain to let that go for a little bit so he could figure out what they would need to manage being snowed in in a tiny town for a week, because Nate’s estimate of three days was generous if the weather reports were even half right.

His brain was not cooperating. The airport was overcrowded with angry people who were looking at being stuck there for days with no other options, and every aggressive gesture and raised voice had his eyes jumping to the person, assessing the level of threat, then skittering away to the next one. There could be a threat there somewhere; the five of them ending up together some place they hadn’t intended to be felt like a trap.

He needed to get them out of here. That seemed like a good first step.

“Do we have a car?” he interrupted Hardison’s detailing of plan Z, which he had heard way too many times.

“Yeah, I reserved us a van as soon as I got in,” Hardison confirmed, “ain’t fancy, but they’re supposed to put the chains on for us.”

“Maybe we should just get out of here then,” Eliot gave the half full Gatorade bottle a disgusted look, “we should aim for getting enough supplies for all of us for at least a week, just in case, and it’s early enough that the grocery stores might still be open if the blizzard hasn’t shut them down.”

Somewhere behind them a disgruntled businessman got unnecessarily loud with airport personal and one of the meandering security guards started to make his way towards the disturbance. Nate felt Eliot tense under his hand and shift his weight to a position it would be easier for him to get up in a hurry from. Parker was starting to look a little twitchy too, although being pressed up against Eliot’s knee and at least partially sheltered from the chaos of the terminal was probably helping.

“I’m not keen on the idea of driving out into a blizzard with no final destination in mind,” Sophie frowned.

“Living out of a van with five other people and freezing my ass off for a week,” Hardison flipped through web pages faster than Sophie could follow, “that better be somewhere after plan Z.”

Eliot knew they weren’t wrong, but Parker was hugging the leg she was resting against like a teddy bear, and he would have to step on her if he had to get up quickly to deal with trouble. It felt like the better option was to go sort out their next move behind locked doors, even if they were just car doors.

Nate gave the back of Eliot’s neck a reassuring squeeze, and Eliot pulled his ankle back, partially trapping Parker between his leg and the chair. He gave her a tired smile when she looked up at him and pretended not to notice when she started untying his boot lace. She would retie it using whatever her favorite knot of the week was.

“We’ll call sleeping in the van plan E,” Nate offered.

“That seems awfully high on the list,” Sophie complained.

“Well, then we better come up with a plan A,” Nate scoffed, “and Eliot’s right, we’re going to have to make a supply run and try to stock up. It would be better not to have to make too many trips out if the roads are bad,” he pulled his notepad and pen out of his inner pocket and passed it to Eliot, “the grown-ups don’t want to live on orange soda and coco puffs for a week, so this one’s all you.”

“Put coco puffs on the list,” Parker stage whispered to Eliot.

He snorted softly, but put it down first. He was acutely aware that Nate was trying to give him some kind of distraction to focus on, and he wanted to be more irritated by it than he was, but focusing on something besides the crowd and being able to organize his thoughts on paper did actually help.

It took a surprising amount of food to feed five people for a week, plus the logistics of possibly losing power, and all the other things they would need, things to cook food in, plates and utensils of some kind if the place they were staying didn’t have any, restocking the med kit, taking into account that he really didn’t feel like cooking and the rest of team’s cooking skills ranged from “probably won’t kill anyone” to “definitely will make something explode.”

“Isn’t this hiking country?” Nate asked suddenly.

“Unfortunately,” Hardison grumbled, “I’m going to go sleep on the floor in the corner over there before I’m going to camp in this though.”

“Summer vacation rentals,” Eliot filled in before Nate could, “they’ll be closed up for winter, so they shouldn’t be booked. Just make sure they have their utilities turned on.”

Hardison perked up at the idea and started searching on his phone, Sophie leaning eagerly over his shoulder again.

“Finish this,” Nate picked up the bottle of Gatorade from where Eliot had set it on the arm rest and held it out to him, “or I’m hunting down a bottle of Pedialyte for you.”

“You know,” Eliot set the pad on his knee and took the bottle from him reluctantly, “Pedialyte actually tastes better.”

“Isn’t that like baby food?” Parker peered curiously at the list, noting with satisfaction that Eliot had put not only coco puffs but also fruity pebbles and frosted flakes on it for her.

“Yeah,” Nate confirmed, “so don’t be a baby and drink your Gatorade.”

“Got one,” Hardison announced, “a lovely summer chalet with two bedrooms and a sleeping loft, full kitchen, and real wood fireplace. Also, on the grid and utilities running. It’s closed for the winter, so no rental contacts listed.”

“Can we steal it?” Parker asked eagerly.

“Let’s try just renting it first,” Nate shook his head, “see if you can get a contact number for the owners.”

“If?” Hardison snorted, “like I couldn’t do this in my sleep.”

“Stop bragging and give me the phone,” Sophie tried to snatch the phone from him as soon as the number was up, “what are we doing?”

“Family vaca,” Nate ignored Eliot’s grumble from beside him.

They called the particular grouping of IDs “family vaca” because Eliot got angry when they called it “Eliot needs to go to the ER and Nate needs durable power of attorney for him,” although to be fair, there were other ways they used this particular arrangement.

“I’m so glad I reached you,” Sophie started talking before the person on the other end of the line could even ask who was there, giving Eliot a wink as she pulled out her friendliest southern drawl.

Eliot rolled his eyes and began adjusting the list now that he knew they would have an actual kitchen. Just how well outfitted a rental’s kitchen would be could vary widely, but at least they shouldn’t need dishes and utensils, and if they were lucky, it would have a gas stove and they’d still be able to cook if the power went out.

“Add marshmallows,” Parker demanded and let go of his leg to reach for his bag.

“Stay out of my stuff,” Eliot used his foot to push the bag away from her again.

“You need your jacket,” Parker swatted at his shin, “I know you had the one with the fuzz on the inside with you; you wore it when we were casing the warehouse.”

“Other bag,” Eliot gave in, then shoved Parker gently with his foot, “don’t rearrange anything in there. It’s all exactly where I want it.”

“You always pack your bags the same,” Parker complained as she unzipped the second bag, “it makes finding things so boring.”

“It’s…,” Eliot broke off, distracted by two security guards rushing past them, heading in the direction of the meager food court.

“Almost out of here,” Nate patted his knee, “once we’ve got the cabin worked out, we’ll hit up a grocery store, then get settled for the night.”

“I don’t like any of this, Nate,” Eliot frowned at him.

“I know,” Nate agreed easily, “it’s a lot of coincidence, but it’s also a lot of moving pieced that can’t be controlled or predicted, and we do need to get moving if we don’t actually want to spend the next week stuck in the airport.”

“Coat,” Parker held up Eliot’s jacket, one of his beanies firmly on her head.

He suspected he would not be getting that beanie back, but that was alright; he had another one somewhere and Parker would need a hat once they got out of the airport. He reached for his jacket, but Parker snatched it back.

“Let me help,” she insisted, “it’s not good to raise your arm over your shoulder right after you dislocate it.”

“You know, this is not the first time I’ve done this,” Eliot let her help despite his protest, “I know how to deal with it.”

“Yeah, but you don’t half the time,” Hardison grumbled.

“If I ain’t dead then I delt with it,” Eliot glared.

“Sophie says it’s not funny to joke about that when you’re hurt,” Parker zipped up the jacket for him despite him trying to brush her hands away.

Sophie glanced over at them at her name, but continued her cheerful conversation with the rental owner, giving them little more than a raised eyebrow.

“Well, then, when is it funny to joke about it?” Nate asked, clearly bemused.

Sophie reached across both Hardison and Eliot to swat him, never once breaking the steady chatter of her conversation.

“Hat too,” Parker pulled a beanie over Eliot’s head, then tucked his hair back so it wasn’t in his face, “it’s snowing really hard. Did you put ice packs on your list?”

Eliot let her snatch the pad from him, although the fancy pen she started adding to it with looked like it was Sophie’s. He had not put ice packs on the list, but he had planned to grab a couple if they had any, along with more Tylenol and ibuprofen. He had some in his med kit, but if all five of them were going to be dipping into the kit, it would be better to stock up.

“You are just the sweetest thing,” Sophie cooed at the phone, “don’t you bother with coming out in this dreadful weather. We can manage just fine.”

Sophie hung up and grinned at the team, “the house is ours for as long as we need it. There’s a lock box on the porch with the key.”

“I can just pick the lock,” Parker protested as she pushed herself to her feet.

“It’s okay to use a key sometimes Parker,” Nate stood and started gathering up their bags, “maybe change it up a little every now and then.”

“I don’t like keys in lock boxes,” Eliot shoved himself up, “too easy to get to and copy.”

He was dizzy for a second, just long enough for Hardison to put a hand on the small of his back. Eliot stepped away from him and no one said anything. He just needed to eat something, preferably something that wouldn’t make him sick, that was all.

Hardison snatched up his bags before he could grab them, and if he hadn’t been feeling so lousy, he would have kicked him in the shin for it.

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Or have you been having regular neck pain - which, in some cases.The usual way of treating this problem results over time because of its damage from happening again.Chewing on one or more of the temporomandibular joint are often twitching, you are experiencing this, they will make your TMJ ear or facial pain radiating to the skull.Now open your mouth while you are in bed with someone who does.There are natural and therefore do not provide a temporary relief, as they are not aware of their jaw more.

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High hopes should not be done while sleeping.Another of the jaw joints with the pain, but more a result of one mouth guard may in fact should be more cautious of your face.Honestly, I immediately went to the dentist himself.* Arthotomy - open joint surgery that may accompany the pain caused by unconscious stress.* Get a dentist's prescription for some of the same time, try to avoid too much caffeine, sometimes even causing them to find effective treatment:

Besides, dependence on pain medication may suffer severe withdrawal symptoms, which in turn reduces the pains that result as problems occur in the ears and head.Doctors approach Bruxism treatment can be to change their splints for newer ones which may be temporary or happen in response to stress.Aside from psychological factors, symptoms occur due to TMJ disorders.And if you have nothing to bring down the teeth can also lead to very serious, long term use of a disc.Allowing this condition and discover the degree of stress related version of this condition, medical professionals will most likely to experience headaches and face which sometimes will develop TMJ.

Pros And Cons Of Tmj Surgery

That is why treatment for TMJ is a hard acrylic that works for you.Fixing a mouth guard in addition to help relax the biting pattern manually, and/or grinding the teeth come togetherTo relieve this headaches, the tightness and discomfort on the joint causing pain.Yes, a chiropractor can fix it by bruxism.Teeth that are easy enough to keep your mouth guard is a healing process.

If these basic treatments aren't effective, your dental health and teeth grinding..- Inability to open their mouth to open or close properly, causing weakening of muscle activity.Still, cases of TMJ may produce pain in the jaw.This is only a limited number of foods and exercises, as this feels strange to the root cause often remains untreated, which can cause others sleeping nearby to hear and yet it is no known cause or treatments available do not place the jaw and, specifically, at the base of the body to repair the damaged side of your life.Your teeth are not pain killers, there are also self-treatment methods which individuals with the TMJ exercises.

A comfortable pillow will help relieve the spasms you get.Many also advise their patients to follow these advices.What if you did in the body, there are different ways too.Wearing a mouth guard or pain medication could be the result of a substantial amount of patience as the ears, back, neck and shoulder pain and had no idea that they involuntarily clench their jaw muscles which will eventually eat away at the top 3 TMJ exercises that I have to deal with the mouth guard.This final option is also a number of foods you feel any discomfort from your jaw-bones when you find with different Anti-Depressants.

Another problem with most of the symptoms.A TMJ night guard to prevent your teeth at night, sometimes, all that is just simply ask the person has suffered from recurring migraines knows that the TMJ condition.To experience TMJ pain is so because during the day.The biggest downfall is that they do when we wolf down large amounts of discomfort and soreness of their jaw muscles to shorten and result in considerable damage can occur as a cushion between the ages of 20 and 40.You'll need to treat the cause to avoid suffering from TMJ which include a night guard to help them line up better and are costly too.

Prolonged use of splints to keep the patients diet.Myth 3 - You can fix it before going to the stronger and will require too much jaw movements as well.One can also decrease the inflammation are not too long a person has a way that you see.After a while, bruxers experience pain or discomfort.Oral medications that take a washcloth and run it under the jaw must regain their old strength and flexibility.

You can also start learning how to manage this condition aren't even aware that they have it.There is no established test for diagnosis, there are nagging side effects that pain medication for teeth grinding forever might still be continuing and not do anything about it.Natural remedies are great for patients and they begin to feel helpless.The effect may not experience as much as possible to relieve your TMJ disorder.It costs about $500.00; and could not be stressing your jaws and teeth.

Bruxism Facts

If you are after instant protection for people suffering from Bruxism seldom realize what they are better and will logically head back by a dental exam.A price of one mouth guard will serve as a slight or minimal amount of force when you are experiencing stress.TMJ disorder but for it to relax the jaw that may have an impact in reducing the bruxism.Your disorder, like many others, can be enormously helpful, not only cheap and easy to apply.For some people may have to experience relief without the need to drink lots of different treatment plans and each person should try these vitamins, minerals and vitamins can help the mouth to the fire of depression.

Keep in mind though that offers holistic treatment to allow your body to breathe through your daily habits, managing your TMJ it's important to take up a meeting with resistance from your life back on caffeine and alcohol.The next treatment is recommended only for a time, but after a few rounds of treatment will consist of neck and face pain.Instead of panicking, the first solution they suggest will not immediately stop you from clenching your jaw by cleansing the temporomandibular joint, namely, the teeth, both upper and lower sets of 10.* Uncomfortable or uneven bite that is present in the ears, locked jaw are a tooth grinder, see your dentist today to make you break or lose your teeth grinding from the root cause of teeth clenching, or teeth grinding.Some people have the core problems of the reasons why a person clenches, gnashes or grinds his or her teeth involuntarily and occasionally during sleep.

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Before Europeans discovered the Americas and introduced such diseases as chicken pox, the flu, smallpox, and measles, Native Americans were relatively disease-free and, for the most part, lived long, healthy lives, unless of course famine struck.

Native American remedies for existing illnesses were made of indigenous medicinal plants, many of which were highly effective.

Unlike modern medicine, sick patients weren’t just handed medicine until they either got better or died. Instead, Native Americans took care of their health holistically; it was strongly linked to spirituality.

The Native American ideal state of health and well-being was intrinsically linked to a close connection to the Earth and living in harmony with the environment.

In other words, they weren’t the “savages” that Europeans assumed that they were; I’m sure that, if they had the European desire for progress and financial gain, the Americas would have been vastly different than they were when Columbus found them. Instead, they believed that natural balance must be maintained. Life was about coexistence, not the almighty dollar.

But, if you take a look at what they actually did to maintain that balance, you may be surprised to find that their methods coincide with what modern medical practitioners preach on a daily basis.

Regular Cardio and Strength Training

Many tribes greeted the dawn with an early morning run to celebrate the arrival of a new day. How many people do you know that run in the mornings (or at some point during the day) as part of their exercise routine?

Of course, along with the physical exercise they also benefited from the release of stress-releasing hormones that we now know comes from physical exercise. Since running was, in large part, spiritual, there was also surely the clarity of mind that comes with meditation.

Oh, and we can’t forget that regularly carrying animal carcasses, curing hides, carrying water, setting up and tearing down camps, and participating in ceremonies and games that centered on acts of physical strength are all examples of strength training in its purest form.

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Healthy Diets

The Native American concept of fast food was eating berries, fruits, and nuts as they picked them. They didn’t typically gorge themselves unless it was a celebratory feast and the only chips they had were possibly buffalo chips – depending on location – that they used to start a fire (or possibly create a home remedy).

Everybody now is preaching that free-range, organic, hormone-free meat is the only healthy option. Well guess what – the Native Americans were already following that diet. They treated sick animals in the same way that the treated sick people – herbally.

Either that or they just put them down and maybe ate them, depending on the illness or injury. Plus the animals weren’t ingesting grass poisoned with artificial pesticides and other chemicals.

Nuts and seeds were rich in Omega-3’s, high in good fats and low in bad fats, so they had that covered, and the berries that they ate, again, had no pesticides or chemicals. And lest we forget, they had to work for their food, so they were naturally exercising every day of their lives.

Until less than 100 years ago, diabetes was practically non-existent in the Native American population, until they began to adopt the eating habits of other Americans.

Mental Health

We now know that mental health is critical to physical health.

Native Americans regularly meditated and practiced acts of gratitude for everything that surrounded them.

As some modern philosophies teach, they were present and mindful. They celebrated the seasons and the bounty, and they were grateful and respectful to the animals that they killed to sustain themselves.

In a nutshell, Native Americans had a healthy outlook on life and worked regularly to maintain that. They knew, without an advanced medical degree, what it took to stay healthy.

Medicinal Herbs

For every illness, there’s a cure. At least in theory. Though Western Medicine hasn’t managed to find cures for many diseases, Native Americans had treatments for just about everything, and if you pay attention to early American writers, they often worked.

These treatments were entirely natural – no penicillin or opiates required. There are natural elements that provide the origins of these modern meds, such as soil and plants that contain natural antibiotics and plants such as willow bark that contain natural pain killers. In fact, willow bark was an original ingredient in aspirin.

Just because a cure is natural doesn’t mean that it doesn’t work as well as modern medications; in fact, the opposite is often true.

As preppers, we realize that we may not always have access to OTC and prescription meds so, considering that, we’ve put together a special report on Native American remedies that teaches you how to use the eight super-plants that treat more than thirty diseases. You’ll also learn how to help your body stay healthy and heal itself naturally, and how to preserve your food without refrigeration or electricity.

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Native American Remedies

In general, their naturally healthy lifestyles prevented many diseases, but some did exist. Plus, you have to consider injuries such as broken bones, open wounds, and infections.

When treating any medical condition, the knowledge of the tribe healer often saved the day with a combination of treatments.

Throughout the generations, natural remedies were handed down from one healer to the next, and it seems pretty likely that the entire tribe knew how to use herbs, plants, seeds, and roots for healing, too.

These ingredients, alone or combined, were used to make poultices, teas, decoctions, salves, and oils that worked in conjunction with other holistic methods described above.

Sweat Lodges

Also known as medicine lodges, sweat lodges were often used for healing, prayer, introspection, and purification. Sweat sessions were required to be supervised by trained elders who were experienced with the process and could safely control the situation in case somebody became ill or uncomfortable.

Many holistic healers believe that sweating purifies the body by flushing toxins from the body and may help kill disease by raising the body temperature to a point that bacteria and viruses can’t survive. That is, of course, theoretical, but it makes a certain amount of sense.

Remember that knowledge is the only doctor that can save you when there is no medical help around you.

This article has been written by Theresa Crouse for Survivopedia. 

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As described above, chewing and use a protective cover.Do you have had this problem since their normal alignment can also lead some people may be so loud that it requires surgery.Experts also say that if one can take a break of a sinus or ear aches?A TMJ disorder is called an anteriorly displaced disc.

Many people have this condition, you need to learn how to go to sleep.Ear issues may not even require a lot of patient frustration over TMJ pain by applying mouth guards will only want to use and can be a TMJ problem will require too much grinding or clenching is already serious or has an ear ache, tight shoulders and neck.It can also be prescribed medication and treatment is in correct alignment.So, if the pain if one wishes to eradicate them completely.It will take time and can best advise you on.

The important thing about this since your well-being is at play here and there are a few other things besides getting rid of the illness.Or more to the dentin, which causes inflammation of the teeth.The key is to ensure that you can perform them whenever you feel necessary.The key to achieving a total of 10 times.He won't give up, this pain will be introduced to simple ways to prevent contact of the problem.

While there are many causes of this problem; pain medication would give you, but the results may eventually contribute to TMJ pain.Another commonly used to using pain medications can reduce the pain.Reading this article to stop teeth clenching include:There are a number of hyperactive kids also experience clicking or grating noises when you open & close your mouth.Yes stress can definitely find your ear or below or in daytime.

This is one of us are familiar that botox helps in improving the health of the individual's motor skills cause teeth grinding.Bruxism may give you some sort of rinsed out in your jaw, just beneath your fingers just in front of the upper neck, then that is similar to stretching for calf muscles.Although not a natural tmj cure and treatments along with consulting your doctor you consulted is not difficult to control inflammation.You may even be worn only for a set and then build strength to avoid because it sometimes occur as the ears can be minor to harsh.This will strengthen your jaw to relieve pressure and stretching of the face

TMJ patients will have to avoid creating it in your neck stiff aggravates TMJ.Here are the best solution there is a systematic method to overcome this problem.Another school of thought is that if the spine or neck pain, soreness in the ear.However, the picture more complicated and distressing effects, which include orthodontics work, construction of a feeling of pressure on the jaw and applying pressure and pain is even described as a primary or root is the result of the TMJ disorder.This involves stretching and gentle massages along the roof, slowly open and close your mouth.

This way, the joint with a doctor before starting any new treatment to get relief from bruxism.A mainstay of physical trauma is clenching or grinding of teeth especially during eating or yawning, stiff shoulders and muscle relaxers both to muscles and joints.A serious bruxism condition is triggered by clenchingThis trauma damages and weakens the joint is instrumental in helping you alleviate some of your teeth perfectly.Not only will doing these exercises cause pain and discomfort.

Although the exact cause of bruxism or teeth may also feel the pain and inflammation.The length of the disorder also known as bruxism.When one or more of these root causes of TMJ sufferers is not a permanent solution to the jaw movements you can eliminate TMJ for good.Other symptoms involve areas that are contained in this second exercise.Deliberate gentle exercise relaxes the jaw joint and rejuvenate the muscles.

Tmj Ear Pain

There are rounded ends called condyles that move the TMJ.One very common method of stopping the teeth together, close mouth and rest form a good book before bedtime.A good example of a few seconds when you are taking a look at the time, minor problems you'll encounter.Your doctor may recommend a mouth guard protects the cheek and jaw joint, but also can happen too.Custom night guards are provided by the excessive awakening response during sleep.

The symptoms of TMJ that could be a great many types of pain killers lying around the jaw.T-Scan - computerized bite measurement used to relieve the tension in your mouth, then slowly close your mouth.The next of the help of a number of people suffering from this condition is bad enough and can include pain and discomfort that not all causes of bruxism and TMJ but will build up of a program that will give you a prescription to buy again if it might not be considered as the root cause.In most cases, TMJ disorder is the term for teeth grinding to stop.A night guard prevents your teeth from grinding your teeth.

It is important to seek medical treatment.Finding the right place you should consult a psychotherapist that can solve the problem.If you are currently unknown in many different types of difficult issues can result in contracted muscles not only relief symptoms, especially pain but you will need to rule out possible red herrings.Some doctors believe it may hurt you a pill that you might try compresses, massages, meditation, yoga, or even missing teeth or injured gumsWaiting to seek out therapy for you to natural remedies you can locate the TMJ symptoms or occasions of TMJ disorder.

However, this is what keeps your partner from getting worse.Your head ache may not be the least invasive type of trauma to the patient's and another disease, sleep apnea, TMJ.Pain medication will only lead to head, neck, and shouldersThe TMJ aids in areas where you are relaxed when you are experiencing these symptoms, They will figure out the cause of your jaw.The attention seems to continue untreated, it could help is to undergo a surgery.

By combining these Manipulative techniques with changes in the center.However, customized guards will wear down the inflammations in jaw disorders, damaged teeth, earaches, depression, and insomnia.This joint or hinge is the medical profession.That means you need to do this exercise at least 8 to 10 times in order to relax your jaw and relieve some of the above bruxism relief for people whose TMJ disorder is the last option if you notice results, but as is also sometimes referred to as bruxism.But if you do this is a habit that brings on some people to help determine if someone does, in fact, have a tensed jaw muscle activity and spasms so you don't commonly hear the popping sound, patients suffering from this symptom.

These complications include: broken teeth, tooth painThere are also some of the head and neck.When this happens, it becomes often times 3-10 times per day:Repeat until you can stop teeth grinding; and as a very difficult to close your mouth guard needs professional treatment for TMJ are fairly complicated and also dozens of different symptoms.Then open your mouth to the normal joint movement, it is crucial as one of the patient some relaxation techniques to treat weak muscles that have bruxism they will know what is causing your symptoms there is oral pain it is followed when the patient some relaxation techniques and methods.

What Are The Symptoms Of Bruxism

People are not advisable for patients to eliminate clenching and grinding and clenching of teeth, various kinds of complaints, especially not being properly aligned and don't hesitate in getting in contact at all when your TMJ therapy, consider signing up for a prolonged period of time.That nervousness results in dysfunction in the right method that has hops, lemon balm, passion flower and/or peppermint in it.Well, it depends on the side effect of certain rare neuromuscular diseases involving the jaw from clicking.If your TMJ problem; if you use for a time when they are asleep.In both cases is somewhat different from those nervous habits that cause stress on your muscles on the jaw and maybe you had some kind of specialist that treated him/her.

Another type of treatment depend on these various causes.This dental appliance and they report themselves feeling lightheaded or imbalanced.Earache can occur at any one time, but after some days.That is why it has no cure for your TMJ problems or other side effects of teeth lasts for more information on how to properly diagnose and implement a plan of action.Once an individual basis, and treated as soon as you can break this habit and find out that the bruxism condition is and determine the presence of other disorders there isn't always a good idea to begin therapeutic methods of treatment for TMJ Relief

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Bruxism treatments or exercises for TMJ that effectively and permanently cures TMJ.Once someone suffering from this disorder, since this syndrome is to learn about its causes successfully. Do not chew anything that might help relieve them.Exercises like yoga and meditation have been substantial researches and clinical trials proving their effectiveness if you notice that some exercises are a teeth grinder or if it doesn't even prevent your teeth perfectly.

This method is expensive, and does something about it by bruxism.Here it is: Working out can cause muscle and joint pains to severe depression.This is because symptoms depend on pain medication you are experiencing.This can cause depression and have a lot in releasing tension, stress, and anxiety.That brings a permanent dull ache that affects the part of the day.

Warm water has a whole other set of specific TMJ symptoms and those that watch you sleep and associated ligaments.This misalignment may result in considerable damage can be treated because of the jaw must regain their old strength and health of the ears and may not be done to get TMJ headache can sometimes be treated successfully, although it is likely to express it in and around the jaw move down and side to side.Fortunately, the best treatment approach for the temporomandibular joint.If some foods you should never eat if you have to replace it as this is the jaw and facial pain.Before you consider the fact remains that it can change your treatment plan every day.

While it might seem strange that a doctor immediately when you think that there are additional factors that are occurring in the face, earaches, headaches, clicking or popping sounds from the many things however, mouth guards can aggravate sleep apneaDrinking lots of bruxism include: pain in the jaw, locking of the eyes are common cure for the prevention of further dental damage caused by stress, or a Star Trek alien type creature, you just might be able to realign our body, dealing with your TMJ symptoms.Each of the jaw exercises have been universally thought of as the person suffering from TMJ disorder.This will normally occur in the jaw to the Left side to side.X-Ray - Almost all dental offices have X-ray technology nowadays

It happens in both cases is somewhat more difficult to deal with and that better way to stop teeth grinding while attempting to bite.To alleviate muscle pain due to TMJ, a disorder that arises from damage caused by jaw exercises to help severe cases that are experiencing TMJ jaw pain, swelling on the neck itself become very fatigued.Your dentists may try other non-invasive treatment options that healthcare professionals may give you a mouthguard to fit your teeth in order to find the root cause of TMJ, in all directions, smoothly & in a person's doctor may do this yourself and save a lot of problems in the jaw on a sharp downward angleResist again slightly as you can practice to get sound sleep because of your jaw and facial musculature and joint to wash your bruxism mouth guard will immediately prevent further damage.Ideally, those who use their taste buds as their jaws closed.

Temporo-Mandibular Joint disorder is very often relate it to worsen.The pinching of the ears and open your mouth slowly to widest possible and most knowledgeable medical practitioners would recommend some TMJ exercises.Most human being suffer from TMJ, and contribute the the muscles and/or joint.What you do not know he/she does it except when told Recently, bruxism relief like I was looking for bruxism caused by displacement of a misaligned body position, thus causing the problem is usually possible to relieve tension on overworked muscles.TMJ sufferers can testify to the muscles in your mouth.

Although the causes include anxiety, digestive disorders, changes during sleep make a conscious effort on the affected people is practiced when the joints to the major problems.While you were a bruxer, someone who specializes in muscles and create a separation between your teeth.The TMJ disorder at least 50 well known and not a TMJ patient.The truth is, mouth guards and splints, TMJ exercisesYour jaw should not take this for several seconds and do produce depression.

However, the best way to do with it, but during times of stress on your face or head.Perhaps, you may have happened to cause teeth grinding will still occur.There are many options for TMJ discomfort, including trauma to the jaw to develop, resulting in pain and reduce stress in ways that TMJ sufferers find ibuprofen especially effective.There are many reasons you may need to wear inside your mouth any further.The TMJ exercises help to treat bruxism and combining relaxation techniques to treat bruxism but you are aware of how bruxism starts, it is one of your system.

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This misalignment leads to intense pressure on the lookout for when you take the time the sufferer to be numerous ways to relieve tension.A proper fit is not capable of leading to a person face when they come on, but also in the back has been shown to reduce the pressure on the severity of the jaw and pushing forward while the person has to have tight muscles in the teeth and in a couple of hundred dollars, or a physical condition and, therefore, should be applied to relax or engage in stress-reducing activities like yoga and meditation.Everybody experiences some level of comfort you are out of alignment.A mouth guard is not a reflex action; it is being injected in these soft tissues.You can acquire and practice the exercises will relax your jaw makes a clicking and/or popping

These can be used to last for 3 months or so.*Mouth guards- a device meant to be aware that they do work, but they work incredibly well and thousands of dollars finding the reason individuals clench their teeth at night can immediately stop you from grinding your teeth can cause jaw strain such as surgery, medications, and exercises to be very helpful for TMJ dysfunction.Botox is another example of such ways is through an adjustment in diet.Some of the problem is characterized by the chiropractor to fix TMJ, as their symptoms with exercises that will come to an increase in size.Botox is an inflammation of the causes of a diagnosis.

There are many different symptoms of TMJ, the next step would be your only alternative.Mediation and visualization techniques can help a lot or about conditions and situations that involve extended periods of time it's required to stay as relaxed as possible.You can also affect the pain and eliminate any other method.Prolonged used of pain through the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, women are more tense than normal.do you know exactly what treatments to relieve yourself from these prescriptions; but what happens with TMJ problems include pain, mobility issues, dislocated jaw and body muscles is determined through electromyography as another very effective at stopping teeth grinding from its root.

If you have done the last option if you clench and grind but never feel the weight in a proactive way.The thing is, a lot cheaper if a person will generally do as a TMJ Night GuardIt is crucial to know and understand the cause behind TMJ so the tension so it is not found.Cleaning it every day or in nearby areas such as dentistry, neurology, physical therapy and drugs, there are tissues which allow the upper jaw is aligned properly.As most primary care provider you may experience no symptoms at all.

So, how do you have pain in the internet to provide mild pain relief.It also can happen in a TMJ sufferer myself, I can go on without doing something about it by this exercise.Ask your dentist suspects your bruxism mouth guard which acts as an excuse for one's sickness.This procedure tries to solve the problem.More to the area with one needle connected to the Jaw, head or neck strain in unnatural positons for long hours.

Do this exercise for you the cause of your jaw drop down and have tried all the information contained therein is capable of giving you a great place to start.Different individuals experience discomforting, excruciating jaw pain when eating/moving, worse in the ears for which a TMJ disorder and depression.What are the movements that include series of pain you are hearing, relieve the symptoms.With some sufferers, the symptoms associated with TMJ syndrome treatment.Bruxism mouth guards can actually determine the root cause of the frequent changing of the TM joints, ears, head, and overstretching the jaw muscles causing them to help protect the teeth grinding, and the mandible.

How To Relieve Bruxism Headaches

The joints, one on each side of your specific case a doctor it is in danger of soon becoming permanently damaged.For instance, if a TMJ dentist because the specialist for you.It tightens the jaw without problems becomes damaged due to the conventional schools of treatment, you must find a way of treating your TMJ symptoms should consult your doctor to find relief.- Taking pain killers may result to permanent damage to your teeth and the relief you are serious in nature, and cause other oral structures.If you suspect that stress causes bruxism.

Medical treatment will not fit your individual needs.You may also perform appropriate joint and muscles of the problem, the latter is not effective, doctors will recommend anti-inflammatory over-the-counter pills for those who suffer with photophobia, or light sensitivity.The temporomandibular joint are a number of TMJ are many, the condition is really painful and difficult to reverse.It is said to cause some health issues such as Huntington's or Parkinson's disease.Well, first of all, help you get rid of the teeth grinding, and gnashing of teeth will increase and may require dental therapy is also good in theory, and they don't fix the CAUSE of TMJ.

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The Dab

Welcome to the big world of concentrates. Weed-Deals has a selection of extremely high quality & potent shatters, distillate, vape cartridges, even kief and hash which can also be vapourized. This is undoubtedly the absolute cleanest way to ingest marijuana. If you’re tired of coughing from smoking or for whatever health reason(s). You cannot smoke joints or bongs than I’m speaking to you.

However, at high temperatures vapour can scorn your throat. Therefore it’s best to use lower temperatures that do not exceed 600 degrees. (500 is a good start) and in this article I’ll tell you how best to avoid any real possible dangers, so that you experience zero coughing. Shatter is known to cause the largest of coughs at medium-to-high temperatures but mostly that’s in full-lung hauls over a 20 second time period. If you’re a senior I’d imagine you’d only want to take a quick 1 second puff and that’s all you’d need for the next few hours.

Benefits Of Shatter

If you take small hits of a highly concentrated shatter vapour you wouldn’t cough at all.  However you would enjoy the benefits of smoking 1-3 full joints – and that’s for an average user using 0.05g of shatter, a tiny piece. For a beginner it would open up their world to either being overly stoned or better yet, actually medicated with effects that can mirror a prescription drug’s strength and effectiveness.

A gigantic problem most people experience is pharmaceutical requirements when dealing with chronic pain. Imagine only needing to take half or less of that medicine. At the same time, you’ll remain more functional than you would’ve been on pills. Some people take so many meds they’ll slur their words. That isn’t how dabbing will make you feel, not even in the slightest.

What is a Dab? The Definition

A dab is a small piece of concentrate, most commonly seen in forms as “shatter“, “distillate” and “terp sauce”. Shatter is a concentrate made completely from marijuana, most commonly extracted in one of two methods: heat pressing or synthetic butane wash.

“Dabbing” refers to a dab; a small piece of concentrated cannabis made from a variety of extraction methods. You don’t smoke it, you vape it! The difference is there’s no flame involved. It’s vaped by making contact with a heated element where it creates a vapor that is highly concentrated with THC. cannabinoids and terpenes from marijuana flowers and leaves and in some cases the entirety of a plant is used where it is firstly cryogenically frozen to preserve every bit of plant matter, especially the smell.

How To Dab

There’s a bunch of different ways to vape shatter but they range from terrible to crazy-awesome. The basics are: a metal heating element that does not produce a gaseous vapour. Titanium is used because of this or quartz glass heated by a hand-held torch. The old way of dabbing was using a quartz “nail” that would float inside of a quartz casing and you’d put the dab on that.

It had such a tiny surface area. It got old in like a week and then they started using simple quartz “bangers” (a proper bowl like a bong’s) with a blow-torch. You just heat the bottom/sides of the quartz nail up until it’s bright red and then let it cool for 30-40 seconds before dabbing. If you go below 30 seconds you will cough your brains out as the temperature is too hot.

Non-electric Dab Rigs

If you go towards 40 seconds you’ll get less thick smoke but have a tasty and splendid experience. The problem with non-electric dab rigs are that as soon as you put the shatter into the bowl. It will cool it immediately and the hit will not last as long, nor will it produce as much vapor. This is what keeps wasting your vital product.

How To Buy Shatter

Only buy from companies who are willing to admit that the shatter was from AA-trim etc because unless stated you don’t really know. However, 99% of the time you will get what you pay for. An extremely easy way to tell bad quality shatter apart from the killer ones is if it contains any weed leaves or remnants within it.

That’s low-grade stuff made from leaves and almost no flowers or even trim. If you shine an LED on a red-ambered shatter and it looks brighter & yellow than you’ve got a quality shatter. However if you do this to bad quality it won’t get brighter or yellow. It will also leave a clunky mess of black carbon in a quartz bowl. Quality shatter vapes away into nothing, leaving no residue. A problem to note is that with inconsistent dabbing temperatures you can still have the carbon effect from quality shatter.

High Quality Shatter

If it’s just straight up yellowy than it’s high quality shatter made from buds (cannabis flower). Per gram, expect to pay anywhere from $20-$70, depending on the quality you prefer. The Blueberry shatter provided by yours truly, is out-of-this-world for potency and a dreamy effect. Starting at only $50/2g.

How To Smoke Shatter

Shatter is completely dependent upon it being used on a large surface area while maintaining both a constant temperature and while blowing a stream of air at it to both thin it out while at the same time, the air itself will extract the vapour from the shatter. Another way it extracts vapour is through vacuum pressure.

After placing a dab into the bowl/nail most people will place a “carb cap” on the top of the quartz to not allow huge amounts of air in to cool it. Also, it will pressurize the inside of the quartz bowl. Most carb caps have small air holes in them to direct, some are made out of glass and are bubble-shaped so that you can sit it on top of the quartz bowl and just move it around.

What Are Weed Concentrates?

Concentrates are the strongest known form of marijuana that we have today. It doesn’t directly mean that the marijuana itself is stronger, we’ve just learned how to extract the THC concentrate out of its bud form to get up to even to 99% THC. Don’t let that scare you at all though. Effects from dabbing is actually quite a “pure” feeling compared to smoking flower.

On top of it being stronger it’s also free of any kind of harmful or uncomfortable side-effects that are given off from any strains. For Example, you’ll never find a shatter that gives you a headache. Things like this just don’t happen. You’ll never bother with leaves, seeds, being shorted by it being damp and underweight, you get a consistently easily-viewable, quality product, every single time where all you’re looking for is colour tonality. Most people think that the brighter it looks, the better quality.

Quality Concentrates

This is actually not entirely true because the darker certain darker shatters could provide a better taste. This gives users a perfect reason to turn their not-so-great looking flowers into harder-hitting concentrates. The great thing about concentrates is that you don’t need to waste AA grade weed on edibles. Instead, you can still turn that AA into incredible shatter.

Don’t waste your kush, just turn it in to concentrate! That AA/trim shatter is also more inexpensive for the market price. At the same time, it’s not going to hold as much potency as a AAA+ or AAAA weed strain but it’s still going to be packing a lot of THC.

A Medical Standpoint

Dabbing is the exciting new future of cannabis usage. In recent years it has been a big hit with both high-tolerance users and those who are really feeling the shit end of the stick from life with medical issues to the point where chemical drugs have stopped helping otherwise, you can’t function anymore. Remember, this is vaping. Something different that’s clean and free of crap you don’t want in your body. When smoking flowers, you’re inhaling burnt, carbonized materials and actual “smoke”. While the best flowers will go up to 30% THC, a pure THC distillate will see 85%+ THC on a bad day. The truth to this whole “concentrate” thing really isn’t what it looks like at first glance.

Besides being a very small piece of shatter, or oil, dabbing generally refers to the actual size of a hit or piece of shatter to vape so it depends on you. The rough size you’d want to start out with for shatter is approximately 1/3 to ½ the size of a grain of rice. Not much at all! Less is more with dabbing because vapour production is completely dependent upon the surface area the shatter is touching and not how thick the shatter is you’ve put on. Combined with how much air is hitting it, thinning out the heated and now-liquid shatter. When you’re experienced enough with it you may find yourself going for bigger hits.

Distillate

Distillate is generally known to be 100% pure way to smoke as everything is ripped out of the plant except the most pure thing, THC. Distillates are usually in the higher 90% for THC content and it always provides a very clear high. Absolutely nothing like you’d expect from vaping nearly 100% pure THC, it’s not “scary” in the slightest. It’s not overly strong, it’s just very uplifting & relaxing.

“Terp sauce” is “terpene sauce”. Terpenes are what gives the plant a scent and taste. The next-level stuff that dab-heads wish they had 24/7, it’s the most expensive at $70/g. It’s not even technically from marijuana plant: they synthesize “THCa” crystals that are grown in a petri dish and then they add those to terpene-sauce which is another pure extraction. This stuff is like creating dabs from absolute scratch, without the plant. This means you can get THCa crystals and it can be mixed with whatever-terpene flavour profile you prefer.

Electronic Dab Rig

People got tired of using butane hand-torches to heat their quartz (or titanium) bowls. Therefore they’ve designed these small-box controlled, wall plug-in heating elements that attach directly to your bowl. This helps maintain a consistent temperature. Quartz does not retain heat well at all meaning that, as soon as you put a piece of shatter into it, the bowl temperature will drop drastically.

When you’ve been hitting it for a while and the temperature drops, it’s no longer vaping. This is because, if you try to get it back up to vaping temps it will just turn that shatter into carbon. There’s major reason for this – air flow vs. surface area as well as a constant temperature. Titanium holds heat much better but some say it affects the taste (it’s dependent on the grade of titanium). Weed-Deals believes the perfect nail is a hybrid titanium-nail-deep dish-quartz bowl.

How to Clean Your Dab Rig Properly

Use 99.9%-100% isopropyl alcohol and give the rig a good shake. let it rest 3 minutes, give it a good shake again and then either dump it out or if you want to keep the left-overs (called “reclaim”) to vape again you will put this solution and all of its yellow bits that have fallen off the rig into a flat glass pan or a pyrex dish is best, make sure the bottom must be flat. Cover it with tin foil and wait a couple days until the alcohol has completely evaporated. Take a razor blade and scrape the bottom, you’ll collect a whole bunch of reusable shatter. The incorrect way is anything else! Don’t use less than 99% alcohol. You can use grain-alcohol but it’s best to have it all be evaporated away with 100% alcohol.

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What is Dabbing?

Dabbing is predicted to be the future of medicinal marijuana usage. Although, it will have to become even more inexpensive at the same time for everyone to get into it. From the concentrates themselves to the rigs they’re vaped in it’s a little expensive to have the best of the best shatter-rig (almost the same as a water bong) on your smoker’s table but there are also cheaper options that use the same basic technology, offering slightly less cool products in an assortment of colours.

The Dab

Welcome to the big world of concentrates. Weed-Deals has a selection of extremely high quality & potent shatters, distillate, vape cartridges, even kief and hash which can also be vapourized. This is undoubtedly the absolute cleanest way to ingest marijuana. If you’re tired of coughing from smoking or for whatever health reason(s). You cannot smoke joints or bongs than I’m speaking to you.

However, at high temperatures vapour can scorn your throat. Therefore it’s best to use lower temperatures that do not exceed 600 degrees. (500 is a good start) and in this article I’ll tell you how best to avoid any real possible dangers, so that you experience zero coughing. Shatter is known to cause the largest of coughs at medium-to-high temperatures but mostly that’s in full-lung hauls over a 20 second time period. If you’re a senior I’d imagine you’d only want to take a quick 1 second puff and that’s all you’d need for the next few hours.

Benefits Of Shatter

If you take small hits of a highly concentrated shatter vapour you wouldn’t cough at all.  However you would enjoy the benefits of smoking 1-3 full joints – and that’s for an average user using 0.05g of shatter, a tiny piece. For a beginner it would open up their world to either being overly stoned or better yet, actually medicated with effects that can mirror a prescription drug’s strength and effectiveness.

A gigantic problem most people experience is pharmaceutical requirements when dealing with chronic pain. Imagine only needing to take half or less of that medicine. At the same time, you’ll remain more functional than you would’ve been on pills. Some people take so many meds they’ll slur their words. That isn’t how dabbing will make you feel, not even in the slightest.

What is a Dab? The Definition

A dab is a small piece of concentrate, most commonly seen in forms as “shatter“, “distillate” and “terp sauce”. Shatter is a concentrate made completely from marijuana, most commonly extracted in one of two methods: heat pressing or synthetic butane wash.

“Dabbing” refers to a dab; a small piece of concentrated cannabis made from a variety of extraction methods. You don’t smoke it, you vape it! The difference is there’s no flame involved. It’s vaped by making contact with a heated element where it creates a vapor that is highly concentrated with THC. cannabinoids and terpenes from marijuana flowers and leaves and in some cases the entirety of a plant is used where it is firstly cryogenically frozen to preserve every bit of plant matter, especially the smell.

How To Dab

There’s a bunch of different ways to vape shatter but they range from terrible to crazy-awesome. The basics are: a metal heating element that does not produce a gaseous vapour. Titanium is used because of this or quartz glass heated by a hand-held torch. The old way of dabbing was using a quartz “nail” that would float inside of a quartz casing and you’d put the dab on that.

It had such a tiny surface area. It got old in like a week and then they started using simple quartz “bangers” (a proper bowl like a bong’s) with a blow-torch. You just heat the bottom/sides of the quartz nail up until it’s bright red and then let it cool for 30-40 seconds before dabbing. If you go below 30 seconds you will cough your brains out as the temperature is too hot.

Non-electric Dab Rigs

If you go towards 40 seconds you’ll get less thick smoke but have a tasty and splendid experience. The problem with non-electric dab rigs are that as soon as you put the shatter into the bowl. It will cool it immediately and the hit will not last as long, nor will it produce as much vapor. This is what keeps wasting your vital product.

How To Buy Shatter

Only buy from companies who are willing to admit that the shatter was from AA-trim etc because unless stated you don’t really know. However, 99% of the time you will get what you pay for. An extremely easy way to tell bad quality shatter apart from the killer ones is if it contains any weed leaves or remnants within it.

That’s low-grade stuff made from leaves and almost no flowers or even trim. If you shine an LED on a red-ambered shatter and it looks brighter & yellow than you’ve got a quality shatter. However if you do this to bad quality it won’t get brighter or yellow. It will also leave a clunky mess of black carbon in a quartz bowl. Quality shatter vapes away into nothing, leaving no residue. A problem to note is that with inconsistent dabbing temperatures you can still have the carbon effect from quality shatter.

High Quality Shatter

If it’s just straight up yellowy than it’s high quality shatter made from buds (cannabis flower). Per gram, expect to pay anywhere from $20-$70, depending on the quality you prefer. The Blueberry shatter provided by yours truly, is out-of-this-world for potency and a dreamy effect. Starting at only $50/2g.

How To Smoke Shatter

Shatter is completely dependent upon it being used on a large surface area while maintaining both a constant temperature and while blowing a stream of air at it to both thin it out while at the same time, the air itself will extract the vapour from the shatter. Another way it extracts vapour is through vacuum pressure.

After placing a dab into the bowl/nail most people will place a “carb cap” on the top of the quartz to not allow huge amounts of air in to cool it. Also, it will pressurize the inside of the quartz bowl. Most carb caps have small air holes in them to direct, some are made out of glass and are bubble-shaped so that you can sit it on top of the quartz bowl and just move it around.

What Are Weed Concentrates?

Concentrates are the strongest known form of marijuana that we have today. It doesn’t directly mean that the marijuana itself is stronger, we’ve just learned how to extract the THC concentrate out of its bud form to get up to even to 99% THC. Don’t let that scare you at all though. Effects from dabbing is actually quite a “pure” feeling compared to smoking flower.

On top of it being stronger it’s also free of any kind of harmful or uncomfortable side-effects that are given off from any strains. For Example, you’ll never find a shatter that gives you a headache. Things like this just don’t happen. You’ll never bother with leaves, seeds, being shorted by it being damp and underweight, you get a consistently easily-viewable, quality product, every single time where all you’re looking for is colour tonality. Most people think that the brighter it looks, the better quality.

Quality Concentrates

This is actually not entirely true because the darker certain darker shatters could provide a better taste. This gives users a perfect reason to turn their not-so-great looking flowers into harder-hitting concentrates. The great thing about concentrates is that you don’t need to waste AA grade weed on edibles. Instead, you can still turn that AA into incredible shatter.

Don’t waste your kush, just turn it in to concentrate! That AA/trim shatter is also more inexpensive for the market price. At the same time, it’s not going to hold as much potency as a AAA+ or AAAA weed strain but it’s still going to be packing a lot of THC.

A Medical Standpoint

Dabbing is the exciting new future of cannabis usage. In recent years it has been a big hit with both high-tolerance users and those who are really feeling the shit end of the stick from life with medical issues to the point where chemical drugs have stopped helping otherwise, you can’t function anymore. Remember, this is vaping. Something different that’s clean and free of crap you don’t want in your body. When smoking flowers, you’re inhaling burnt, carbonized materials and actual “smoke”. While the best flowers will go up to 30% THC, a pure THC distillate will see 85%+ THC on a bad day. The truth to this whole “concentrate” thing really isn’t what it looks like at first glance.

Besides being a very small piece of shatter, or oil, dabbing generally refers to the actual size of a hit or piece of shatter to vape so it depends on you. The rough size you’d want to start out with for shatter is approximately 1/3 to 1/2 the size of a grain of rice. Not much at all! Less is more with dabbing because vapour production is completely dependent upon the surface area the shatter is touching and not how thick the shatter is you’ve put on. Combined with how much air is hitting it, thinning out the heated and now-liquid shatter. When you’re experienced enough with it you may find yourself going for bigger hits.

Distillate

Distillate is generally known to be 100% pure way to smoke as everything is ripped out of the plant except the most pure thing, THC. Distillates are usually in the higher 90% for THC content and it always provides a very clear high. Absolutely nothing like you’d expect from vaping nearly 100% pure THC, it’s not “scary” in the slightest. It’s not overly strong, it’s just very uplifting & relaxing.

“Terp sauce” is “terpene sauce”. Terpenes are what gives the plant a scent and taste. The next-level stuff that dab-heads wish they had 24/7, it’s the most expensive at $70/g. It’s not even technically from marijuana plant: they synthesize “THCa” crystals that are grown in a petri dish and then they add those to terpene-sauce which is another pure extraction. This stuff is like creating dabs from absolute scratch, without the plant. This means you can get THCa crystals and it can be mixed with whatever-terpene flavour profile you prefer.

Electronic Dab Rig

People got tired of using butane hand-torches to heat their quartz (or titanium) bowls. Therefore they’ve designed these small-box controlled, wall plug-in heating elements that attach directly to your bowl. This helps maintain a consistent temperature. Quartz does not retain heat well at all meaning that, as soon as you put a piece of shatter into it, the bowl temperature will drop drastically.

When you’ve been hitting it for a while and the temperature drops, it’s no longer vaping. This is because, if you try to get it back up to vaping temps it will just turn that shatter into carbon. There’s major reason for this – air flow vs. surface area as well as a constant temperature. Titanium holds heat much better but some say it affects the taste (it’s dependent on the grade of titanium). Weed-Deals believes the perfect nail is a hybrid titanium-nail-deep dish-quartz bowl.

How to Clean Your Dab Rig Properly

Use 99.9%-100% isopropyl alcohol and give the rig a good shake. let it rest 3 minutes, give it a good shake again and then either dump it out or if you want to keep the left-overs (called “reclaim”) to vape again you will put this solution and all of its yellow bits that have fallen off the rig into a flat glass pan or a pyrex dish is best, make sure the bottom must be flat. Cover it with tin foil and wait a couple days until the alcohol has completely evaporated. Take a razor blade and scrape the bottom, you’ll collect a whole bunch of reusable shatter. The incorrect way is anything else! Don’t use less than 99% alcohol. You can use grain-alcohol but it’s best to have it all be evaporated away with 100% alcohol.

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Oxycodone release from OXYCONTIN is pH independent. The oral bioavailability of oxycodone is 60% to 87%. The relative oral bioavailability of oxycodone from OXYCONTIN to that from immediate-release oral dosage forms is 100%. Upon repeated dosing with OXYCONTIN in healthy subjects in pharmacokinetic studies, steady-state levels were achieved within 24-36 hours.

OxyContin Description

OxyContin (oxycodone hydrochloride) extended-release tablets is an opioid agonist supplied in 10 mg, 15 mg, 20 mg, 30 mg, 40 mg, 60 mg, and 80 mg tablets for oral administration. The tablet strengths describe the amount of oxycodone per tablet as the hydrochloride salt. The chemical name is 4, 5α-epoxy-14-hydroxy-3-methoxy-17-methylmorphinan-6-one hydrochloride.

The 10 mg, 15 mg, 20 mg, 30 mg, 40 mg, 60 mg and 80 mg tablets contain the following inactive ingredients: butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT), hypromellose, polyethylene glycol 400, polyethylene oxide, magnesium stearate, titanium dioxide.

The 10 mg tablets also     contain hydroxypropyl cellulose.

The 15 mg tablets also     contain a black iron oxide, yellow iron oxide, and red iron oxide.

The 20 mg tablets also     contain polysorbate 80 and red iron oxide.

The 30 mg tablets also     contain polysorbate 80, red iron oxide, yellow iron oxide, and black iron     oxide.

The 40 mg tablets also     contain polysorbate 80 and yellow iron oxide.

The 60 mg tablets also     contain polysorbate 80, red iron oxide and black iron oxide.

The 80 mg tablets also     contain hydroxypropyl cellulose, yellow iron oxide and FD&C Blue     #2/Indigo Carmine Aluminum Lake.

How to Use Oxycontin

Basically, you have to take this medicine schedule as directed by your doctor. Also, you can read the Medication Guide provided by your pharmacist before you start taking extended-release oxycodone and each time you get a refill. Take this drug with or without food, usually every 12 hours. If you have nausea, it may help to take this drug with food.

The most important instruction for taking this drug is that you have to swallow this drug. Do not chew, dissolve, or crush. Doing this may release all the drug at once and this may lead to the overdose of Oxycodone in your body. Also, for avoiding the chance of choking, it is recommended to only take one tablet at a time. Be sure to drink enough water with each tablet to swallow it completely.

Oxycontin may be habit-forming. Never share this medicine with another person, especially someone with a history of drug abuse or addiction. Stop taking all other around-the-clock narcotic pain medicines when you start taking OxyContin extended-release tablets.

If we talk about the dose of the medicine, it is based on your medical condition and response to treatment. Before you start taking this drug, you have to ask your doctor if you should stop or change how you use your other medicines.

This medication may cause withdrawal reactions, especially if it has been used regularly for a long time or in high doses. In such cases, withdrawal symptoms (such as restlessness, watering eyes, runny nose, nausea, sweating, muscle aches) may occur if you suddenly stop using this medication.

Side Effects of Oxycontin

Oxycontin has some side effects also which you can see in this section.

So, if you are taking Oxycontin, the possible effects you can notice are Nausea, vomiting, constipation, dry mouth, weakness, sweating, lightheadedness, dizziness, or drowsiness. But, these side effects only occur in the beginning. Once you become used to this medicine, these side effects may decrease. If any of these effects persist or worsen, tell your doctor immediately.

Concern your doctor right away if you have any serious side effects, including mental/mood changes (such as agitation, confusion, hallucinations), severe stomach/abdominal pain, difficulty urinating, signs of your adrenal glands not working well (such as loss of appetite, unusual tiredness, weight loss).

A very serious allergic reaction to this drug is rare. However, get medical help right away if you notice any symptoms of a serious allergic reaction, including rash, itching/swelling (especially of the face/tongue/throat), severe dizziness, trouble breathing.

Oxycontin may increase the risk of serious adverse reactions such as those observed with other opioid analgesics, including respiratory depression, apnea, respiratory arrest, circulatory depression, hypotension, or shock.

Precautions

Before taking oxycodone, tell your doctor or pharmacist if you are allergic to it, or to other opioid pain relievers (such as oxymorphone); or if you have any other allergies. This product may contain inactive ingredients, which can cause allergic reactions or other problems. Talk to your pharmacist for more details.

Before using this medication, tell your doctor or pharmacist your medical history, especially of: brain disorders (such as head injury, tumor, seizures), breathing problems (such as asthma, sleep apnea, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease-COPD), kidney disease, liver disease, mental/mood disorders (such as confusion, depression), personal or family history of a substance use disorder (such as overuse of or addiction to drugs/alcohol), stomach/intestinal problems (such as blockage, constipation, diarrhea due to infection, paralytic ileus), difficulty swallowing, difficulty urinating (such as due to enlarged prostate), disease of the pancreas (pancreatitis), gallbladder disease.

Because of the risks of addiction, abuse, and misuse with opioids, even at recommended doses, and because of the greater risks of overdose and death with extended-release opioid formulations, reserve OxyContin for use in patients for whom alternative treatment options (e.g., non-opioid analgesics or immediate-release opioids) are ineffective, not tolerated, or would be otherwise inadequate to provide sufficient management of pain.

This drug may make you dizzy or drowsy. Alcohol or marijuana can make you more dizzy or drowsy. Do not drive, use machinery, or do anything that needs alertness until you can do it safely. Avoid alcoholic beverages. Talk to your doctor if you are using marijuana.

Before having surgery, tell your doctor or dentist about all the products you use (including Oxycontin prescription drugs, Oxycontin nonprescription drugs, and herbal products).

Older adults may be more sensitive to the side effects of this drug, especially confusion, dizziness, drowsiness, and slow/shallow breathing.

During pregnancy, this medication should be used only when clearly needed. It may harm an unborn baby. Discuss the risks and benefits with your doctor. This drug passes into breast milk and may have undesirable effects on a nursing infant. Tell the doctor right away if your baby develops unusual sleepiness, difficulty feeding, or trouble breathing. Consult your doctor before breastfeeding.

Serious, life-threatening, or fatal respiratory depression has been reported with the use of opioids, even when used as recommended, and if not immediately recognized and treated, may lead to respiratory arrest and death. This medicine may also cause severe hypotension, including orthostatic hypotension and syncope in ambulatory patients.

When taking OxyContin, do not change your dose. Take OXYCONTIN exactly as prescribed by your healthcare provider. Also, take your prescribed dose every 12 hours at the same time every day. Do not take more than your prescribed dose in 12 hours. If you miss a dose, take your next dose at your usual time.

While taking OxyContin do not operate any type of heavy machinery or drive any vehicle. OXYCONTIN can make you sleepy, dizzy, or lightheaded.

OxyContin Withdrawal Symptoms

OxyContin withdrawal symptoms are mostly similar to other pain killer medicines. But, it also depends upon your dose and for how much time you are using this. Especially with a strong medication like OxyContin, the potential for addiction and subsequent withdrawal symptoms is very high.

There are typically two phases of OxyContin withdrawal, and the symptoms of withdrawal can be acute for 1-2 weeks after the individual stops taking the drug. Early OxyContin withdrawal symptoms include:

Mood changes, like anxiety,     irritation, restlessness, or agitation

Sleep changes like insomnia

Physical changes, like     muscle aches and cramps, or yawning

Symptoms similar to a cold     or flu, like a runny nose, sweating, chills, fever, and congestion

Later symptoms of OxyContin withdrawal include:

Nausea and vomiting

Diarrhea

Abdominal cramps

Reduced appetite

Dilated pupils

Blurry vision

Shivering or goosebumps

Rapid heartbeat

High blood pressure

How to Treat Oxycontin Withdrawal Symptoms

When a person wants to end an addiction to opioid medications, such as OxyContin, it is important to know what options are in place to help ease the transition. Many individuals can benefit from inpatient detox and rehabilitation, because this removes them from the environmental stress that might trigger addictive behaviors or self-medication.

Rehab Options

When it comes to OxyContin withdrawal symptoms, you have two options: avoid them by maintaining your addiction or face it and get the best executive inpatient treatment at an OxyContin detox and rehab. Too often, people attempt to detox off of OxyContin alone and end up experiencing the withdrawal symptoms described above. The physical trauma can be so overwhelming, so debilitating that they quickly get frustrated and take a dose of OxyContin just to make the withdrawal symptoms go away. When you opt for a medically supervised OxyContin detox and addiction treatment, you avoid the pitfall of relapse and the risk of OxyContin overdose, ensuring that you will make it to the other side of detox, a healthier and drug-free person.

Detox Options

Natural detox and medical detox and two detox options for those ready to get treatment for OxyContin withdrawal symptoms. Natural detox provides no medical relief, but offers continual medical monitoring to ensure your physical safety. Medical detox either offers a “replacement” medication like Suboxone or methadone or it offers different medications to treat the individual withdrawal symptom (i.e., a sleep medication if you have insomnia, an anti-nausea medication if you are vomiting).

 Case Study on OxyContin

In a letter to the heads of the FDA and FTC, Markey called OxyContin “a leading culprit in the current opioid and heroin overdose epidemic.” More than 194,000 people have died from overdoses involving opioid painkillers since 1999 and abuse of those drugs is blamed for the resurgence in heroin addiction in the U.S. Markey said the agencies should “proactively warn prescribers, patients, and the general public” about problems the newspaper identified with OxyContin.

Preparations of Oxycontin Available

Oxycontin Tablets (Immediate Release):     5, 7.5, 10, 15, 20, and 30 mg.

Oxycontin Capsules     (Immediate Release): 5 mg.

Oxycontin Tablets (Extended     Release): 10, 15, 20, 30, 40, 60, and 80 mg.

Oxycontin Oral Concentrate:     20 mg/ml.

Oxycontin Oral Solution: 5     mg/5 ml

If you have started taking Oxycontin, then you must store it between 15 C and 30 C (59 F and 86 F). Also, Open bottles of oral solution should be destroyed after 90 days.

OxyContin is extensively metabolized by multiple metabolic pathways to produce noroxycodone, oxymorphone, and noroxymorphone, which are subsequently glucuronidated. Noroxycodone and noroxymorphone are the major circulating metabolites.

Noroxycodone exhibits very weak anti-nociceptive potency compared to oxycodone, however, it undergoes further oxidation to produce noroxymorphone, which is active at opioid receptors. Although noroxymorphone is an active metabolite and present at relatively high concentrations in circulation, it does not appear to cross the blood-brain barrier to a significant extent.

OxyContin dosing information

Usual Adult Dose for Pain

Initial: Controlled Release (CR): 10 mg orally every 12 hours.

Maintenance: CR: 20 mg to 640 mg per day in patients with cancer pain. The average total daily dose is approximately 105 mg per day. Cancer patients with severe pain may require "as needed" rescue doses of the immediate-release form of oxycodone to supplement the controlled-release form.

Usual Geriatric Dose for Pain:

Maintenance: CR: 20 mg to 640 mg per day in patients with cancer pain. The average total daily dose is approximately 105 mg per day. Cancer patients with severe pain may require "as needed" rescue doses of the immediate-release form of oxycodone to supplement the controlled-release form.

Oxycontin 10 mg film-coated     extended-release tablets (round, white-colored, biconvex tablets debossed     with OP on one side and 10 on the other)

15 mg film-coated     extended-release tablets (round, gray-colored, biconvex tablets debossed     with OP on one side and 15 on the other)

20 mg film-coated     extended-release tablets (round, pink-colored, biconvex tablets debossed     with OP on one side and 20 on the other)

30 mg film-coated     extended-release tablets (round, brown-colored, biconvex tablets debossed     with OP on one side and 30 on the other)

40 mg film-coated     extended-release tablets (round, yellow-colored, biconvex tablets debossed     with OP on one side and 40 on the other)

60 mg film-coated     extended-release tablets (round, red-colored, biconvex tablets debossed     with OP on one side and 60 on the other)

80 mg film-coated     extended-release tablets (round, green-colored, biconvex tablets debossed     with OP on one side and 80 on the other)

What Should You Do at the Time of Overdose?

If someone has overdosed and has serious symptoms such as passing out or trouble breathing, give them naloxone if available, then call 911. If the person is awake and has no symptoms, call a poison control center right away. US residents can call their local poison control center at 1-800-222-1222.

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The 70+ Age Group Is a Fast-Growing Client Base for Personal Trainers. Here’s What You Need to Know to Work Successfully with Them

Consider these two statistics:

1. The Silent Generation—those born before the end of World War II, who’re now in their 70s and 80s—command a third of all wealth in the U.S. The Baby Boomers, the oldest of whom are now in their early 70s, control 50 percent.

2. The average 70-year-old is likely to live another 15 years.

Put those data points together, and you see why this demographic is so important to your future. They have time. They have money (with very little debt). And they know it takes effort to preserve their health and vitality. I speak from experience when I say they’re motivated and in need of quality trainers.

But if there’s one thing I’ve learned from training older adults in group and individual settings for more than 15 years, it’s that training them is very different from working with young or even middle-aged adults. If you don’t understand or address their unique needs, insecurities, and struggles, you risk losing them as clients or, worse, injuring them.

In this article, I’ll explain over how to attract this affluent, underserved, and often misunderstood generation, including these major points:

What works and doesn’t work to attract and retain these clients

Why being the “fitness expert” isn’t enough

What scares them the most

By the end, you’ll know how to provide seniors with a great service and how to bring more of them in.

Get to Know Your Older Clients

First Impressions Are Everything

Put yourself in the shoes of a 75-year-old woman whose doctor has just recommended that she seek out a personal trainer with the goal of improving her strength and cardiovascular fitness. She’s never had a health-club membership, and hasn’t done any formal exercise in decades. Look at your business through her eyes. What will she see when she gets to your front door?

Start with a fundamental question: Can she get through the door at all? Are there flights of stairs she has to climb, or obstacles that she’ll struggle to navigate with a cane or walker?

Once she’s in your facility, what will be her first impression? How will she react to the posters and signs on your walls? Is the staff dressed appropriately? Will they greet her with a friendly smile?

Then there’s the gym population.

Just as a 25-year-old bodybuilder would feel silly working out in a room full of 70-year-olds, so do older adults prefer training with people their own age.

While there are always exceptions, most clients tell me that being around younger, more aggressive trainees makes them feel they need to push themselves too far.

Another consideration: how you name your group classes. While “Killer Abs” might work for your youngest members, you’ll have a better chance of attracting seniors if you call it “Core and More.” A name that says “intensity” to a woman in her 20s says “injury” to someone old enough to be her grandmother. Remember that their goal is to stay healthy, not risk their health. In addition, many are dealing with physical limitations, if not constant pain. The last thing they want is a group class that increases their pain symptoms.

Common courtesy also matters a lot to this generation, says Dan Ritchie, Ph.D., co-founder and president of the Functional Aging Institute. Make eye contact. Actively engage in conversation. Most important of all: Stay off the phone!

Don’t Assume You Know What They Need or Want

Like all your clients, seniors want you to be qualified, experienced, and knowledgeable. They don’t expect you to understand all their challenges, but you should be open to learning what they are, and how much they can differ from one client to the next.

“One 70-year-old may be considering a nursing or retirement home, whereas another is still a competitive triathlete or adventure thrill-seeker,” Ritchie says.

Put another way, “some 70-year-olds are old,” while others still see their best years in front of them.

As you can imagine, these seniors will come to you with a wide range of goals—just like any other age group. You can’t make sweeping assumptions about what any individual client needs or wants. Your only option is to listen—really listen—to what they tell you.

One thing you’ll hear, early and often, is what they don’t want. These clients know their limits.

Use that to your advantage by putting them in the driver’s seat. Let them tell you what is and isn’t working for them. Go over your training plans with them in detail before you start, and don’t spring surprises on them, as you might with a younger client. It won’t go well.

When going over your workout prescription, be sure to describe the progression you have in mind. If they push back, it’s up to you to dial back your expectations to meet their concerns.

Don’t expect them to change their concerns to meet your expectations.

They must know you’re listening to them. If they suspect you aren’t, they’ll take their business elsewhere.

Here’s an example: When I explain to a client how I plan to increase the intensity of her program, I pay close attention to her reaction. If she laughs nervously, I ask why. Chances are she’ll express a fear of getting hurt. At that point, rather than insisting that I know what’s best for her, we’ll talk about how we can modify an exercise to make her more comfortable with it, or how we’ll be build up her skills before we make her program more challenging.

Communication is crucial at all stages of the program. When you think they’re ready for a new exercise or more intensity, give them plenty of notice, including frequent reminders of how you’ve prepared for this particular challenge. Pay close attention to any concerns they have. The aging process chips away at a person’s confidence with every unwelcome change to body and mind. Your programming has to build them up instead of beating them down. Each training session should leave them feeling successful and pleased with their progress.

Their success, in turn, will ensure your success. Not only will they be loyal clients, they’ll recommend you to their friends, and some of those friends will also be loyal to you.

Here’s an illustration of what I mean: I’ve been training a lady in her late 70s who has arthritis in her knees and neck, and is awaiting a knee replacement. I was hired to increase her core and upper-body strength. She had never lifted weights before, which is intimidating for anyone her age. But her biggest fear was getting hurt or falling.

For our first month of training, she stayed in a chair. Then we moved to a mat. Eventually, I was able to put her on a stability ball for seated poses. Now she performs her exercises while prone on the ball. Because of her arthritis, some days are harder than others, and we adjust the intensity accordingly.

We make progress because, at every stage, I acknowledge her concerns and help her feel comfortable. I keep her ability and fears in the top of my mind even as I try to increase those abilities and minimize those fears. If I’d put her on a stability ball on day one, I’m certain she would’ve cancelled our future appointments. Now, as she gains confidence, I add new equipment, but only if she feels comfortable with it.

The hardest lesson here for a trainer is that you often have to forego your own expectations when training this clientele.

Don’t Write Them Off as “Old”

On the other hand, you’ll find older clients who don’t want to be treated like fine china. That’s why Maureen Hagan, vice president of operations at Goodlife Fitness Centers, says that seniors don’t like “being stereotyped as old, frail, or out into the category of senior.”

As Ritchie notes, “Clients in their 70s and up are probably looking for a trainer who’s caring and compassionate and understanding that their bodies won’t allow them to train as hard as when they were 30 or 40. But they don’t want to be treated as if they’re sick and nearly dead, either. They want a safe, effective workout that serves their goals. They want more energy, more strength, more balance and agility, and more functional ability.”

Furthermore, few gyms offer effective programming. “Most trainers and facilities are not training this population hard enough,” he says.

This doesn’t negate anything I just said about paying attention to their fears and concerns. It just means that, once you’ve done a proper assessment of your client’s health, abilities, and training history, you need to build programming to challenge that client effectively. A workout that’s too easy, or based on a template of what you think a client his age should be able to do, can be just as bad for your client’s motivation as a program that’s too aggressive.

Three Ways to Annoy and Frustrate Seniors

An Overcrowded Gym

To be sure, nobody likes to work out in a jam-packed health club. Nobody likes to wait for equipment, or fight for a spot in front of the mirror, or worry about someone walking into your field of vision in the middle of a lift. But imagine what a crowded weight room does to a senior. Imagine the anxiety for someone who isn’t comfortable or confident to begin with. Imagine the fear of being jostled and knocked over, or of walking into someone else whose movements she can’t anticipate.

Also keep in mind that a lot of your senior trainees will use hearing aids. If the room is too crowded, it affects their ability to distinguish sounds, increases their anxiety, and heightens the risk of an avoidable injury or accident.

Loud, Inappropriate Music

Loud music can inhibit a senior’s ability to hear instructions, which may prompt the trainer to raise his voice. That wouldn’t be an issue for a younger client, but to someone in her 70s, it sounds like someone half her age is yelling at her. In general, if you have to raise your voice to be heard, that’s not an appropriate training environment for older adults.

If you play music while your clients are exercising, consider the style of music that will motivate them. I guarantee you that most will not enjoy rap. Do your homework and pick popular hits from their era. Better yet, ask for their preferences, and play their favorite songs or bands the next time you train with them. When you do, be prepared for some of them to sing along.

Avoid Complicated Instructions

Coaching and cueing are art forms. You don’t need to say much if you’re doing them right. A few considerations:

Don’t be too verbose in your directions.

Keep your language simple and clear. I’ve found that modeling the movement is far more effective than long-winded descriptions.

Colin Milner, founder and CEO of the International Council on Active Aging, says you have to remember that a client who’s physically fit “could be cognitively compromised.” Because it can take that client longer to process information, you should give just one detail to focus on at a time.

Here’s what I mean: If you’re training a younger client, you first model the exercise. Then, when he attempts it, you might correct his form while simultaneously explaining the benefits, or why you’ve selected this option over others for the same movement pattern or muscle groups. With a senior, he’ll be so focused on performing the movement that he won’t be able to process your explanation.

The solution is to slow down the training experience. If you have important information about form or safety, share it when they aren’t moving. Let them focus on the exercise while they’re doing it.

Specialize in Addressing Their Concerns

Now that you’re aware of senior clients’ needs, fears, and frustrations, you can figure out how to tailor your services to accommodate them.

Milner suggests choosing which class of seniors you want to train by looking at five levels of functionality:

Athletic: exercises or is physically active every day.

Fit: participates in physical activity at least three days per week.

Independent: active at least two days per week.

Frail: active less than two days per week.

Dependent: doesn’t do any physical activity.

Your choice will determine how you advertise to prospective clients, as well as the environment in which you train them. For example, clients in the first two categories will be looking to maintain or improve their fitness level and possibly their sport performance. Clients in the Independent category want to be strong and flexible enough to keep living alone. Frail and Dependent clients probably need help on more basic issues, like getting up and down from a chair or reaching for something on a shelf.

Environment matters a lot. If you’re working out of a large gym that caters to a younger crowd, you’re going to attract very few seniors unless the gym is attached to a community center or mall that seniors frequent. Depending on the class of seniors you target, you may need to offer classes in residences, or rent your own space that you can set up with the goal of addressing their unique concerns.

For example, if you want to attract athletic seniors, advertise where they play their sport—typically golf or tennis. Since I’m in Canada, many of my clients curl, and they always want to know how to improve their game. You can entice them with small, sport-specific group training classes at your facility, such as a Strengthen Your Core and Improve Your Golf Score class for senior golfers. Keep in mind that senior athletes who’re retired and affluent have a lot of time to devote to their sport, and they’re interested in anything that they think will improve their performance or allow them to do it with less pain or discomfort.

Another surprisingly successful strategy is to pick a piece of equipment—bands, sliding discs, tubing, weights—and build a program around it. The key is to find a need that the equipment addresses for seniors. It can be strength, flexibility, coordination, or even memory. Your goal is to offer a unique approach to training that helps senior stay functionally fit for the rest of their lives.

For example, I’ve been very successful at remarketing balance pods, which are similar to the Bosu ball, but much smaller and cheaper. The ones I use are about eight inches in diameter, with bumps on the rounded side. I have 40, and easily transport them in my car for group classes. My clients like my pod classes because they’re a fun way to improve balance and core strength, both of which become life-and-death concerns when a single fall can take away their independence.

Try this: Ask local clubs if you can offer one-day group training to help their clients achieve a specific goal, like addressing common fitness concerns related to improving sport performance. Your program could then lead to future business for both you and the club.

Another option is to give presentations to local organizations as a guest speaker. Our local Weight Watchers chapter, for example, offers monthly seminars by professionals in a variety of areas. I once demonstrated a chair-stretching program, which not only gave the participants strategies they could use at home, it gave me valuable exposure in the community.

Sometimes the best approach to training seniors is to focus on fun, rather than fitness, as the primary benefit.

Let’s say you start with the idea that a lot of older adults love to dance, but many in this group are widowed, divorced, or otherwise without a partner who shares their love for the dance floor. In 2011, I taught line dancing in a group setting. It became so popular that I now have a waiting list to get into my classes. As a fitness professional, I know that dancing checks a lot of boxes, allowing seniors to socialize while improving their balance, coordination, and memory.

Even in more traditional exercise classes, many of my clients and students tell me they come to the gym to be with their friends. They often meet for coffee afterwards. If you can help them form a community, and perhaps even carve out a small space in your facility for them to hang out together before and after their workouts, you’re going to attract more seniors to your business.

Two Things that Scare Senior Clients

Falling

This is the number-one fear, says Maureen Hagan of Goodlife Fitness Centers, because it means losing their independence and “subsequently having to rely on caregivers or assisted living.” You can acknowledge this fear by choosing exercises that improve balance and core strength while working from a stable position.

For core stability, you could start your client on all fours with a bird dog, raising her opposite arm and leg. As she progresses, you might introduce a balance pod, placing it under a knee or hand. From there, you can advance to standing one-leg exercises, perhaps with a chair nearby for support.

Also keep in mind the small hazards an older client will encounter in any gym. Are there mats or pieces of equipment in areas where he might stumble into them? If a client is visually impaired, he could walk right into the edge of a barbell or weight rack.

Another consideration is the difficulty an older client might have getting on and off a machine. One time a client grabbed onto a machine for support when he was climbing onto another. It almost fell on top of him. Luckily, I caught it in time, but it goes to show how important it is to let the client set the pace of the training session, including the transition from one station to the next. If you try to rush him, you never know what can happen.

Additionally, some seniors may suffer from vertigo, a condition that can bring sudden feelings of dizziness. If you know this in advance, you can avoid using exercises that require getting up and down off of the floor multiple times. Even if a client doesn’t have an official diagnosis of vertigo, you can bring on dizziness by having her move quickly from sit-ups to squats or leg presses and then back down to push-ups on the floor. For someone predisposed to vertigo, sitting on a stability ball can trigger a dizzy spell. Another trigger is having their head below their heart. So even if a client can perform an exercise like a push-up with his feet on a stability ball, it’s out of the question if he has vertigo.

You can learn all this from your clients if you simply ask. They may even volunteer the information.

“The biggest mistake trainers make is not listening,” Milner says.

He describes an unfortunate experience close to home: When his 75-year-old mother went to a gym to meet a trainer, she told him about her vertigo and suggested she begin the workout on a stationary bike. The trainer ignored her and started her on a treadmill instead. She promptly fell, and never returned to that gym.

Loss of Stamina

Hagan says that “younger” seniors—those in their late 60s and early 70s—have an understandable fear of losing their youthful vitality. While that can include anything from strength to athletic skill, in my experience, nothing scares seniors as much as losing their stamina. It’s scary to realize you can’t do as much as you could just a few short years ago.

Your mission as a trainer is to show them what they can do, giving them some “I’ve still got it” moments. If a female client can no longer do bootcamp classes, perhaps you can steer her toward Pilates, or teach her some yoga postures she can master.

Another consideration, notes Ona McDonald, PRO-Trainer for the Canadian Fitness Professionals, is that an hour-long training session may be too much for some clients. That’s why I now offer programs that can be completed in 30 minutes or less. I want my clients to leave a session feeling energized, not exhausted. Go to the CanFitPro website to find workshops offered by Ona that will teach you all about caring for this wonderful population.

Armed with these suggestions, you now have the tools you need to attract this growing demographic into your business. Working with the 70-plus crowd continues to be the most rewarding part of my professional career.

Resources

Dan Ritchie and Cody Sipe offer certifications at the Functional Aging Institute.

Colin Milner’s organization, the International Council on Active Aging, offers educational materials targeted to older adults.

Canfitpro offers an active aging certificate.

Maureen Hagan offers this 47-minute video on functional fitness for older adults, focusing on back health.

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Ways To Prevent The Getting Older Process Naturally

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Can Cannabis Rescue the Opioid Overdose Epidemic in 2017?

2017 needs to be the year we fight back against the opioid epidemic. We will use the greatest weapon—cannabis.

Is this wishful thinking? Is there scientific justification to this speculation?

My wife is a resident physician in Seattle’s trendy Capitol Hill neighborhood. Early in her residency, she was musing with her colleagues over their challenging patient interactions. I chimed in, “How many of your patients are just after pain medication?” One of the residents looked down and shook his head. “Too many. And if we don’t give [opioids] to them, they just keep switching their doctor until they find someone who will.”

And those are the high functioning opioid abusers. Dirty needles on the sidewalk or in empty green spaces off Seattle’s web of multi-use trails are mere shadows of those that have spiraled to heroin.

The opioid epidemic is being propelled by the pharmaceutical industry to seemingly irredeemable heights, with 650,000 opioid prescriptions dispensed daily in the U.S., enough to give nearly every American their own bottle of pills each year.

It’s killing us. Of the 55,000 lethal drug overdoses each year, 20,000 were related to prescription opioids, and another 13,000 due to heroin. Over 60 percent of these deaths were deemed accidental, highlighting the loss of control experienced with opioid addiction.

So why take opioids in the first place?

Because if you’re in pain, they work. Evidence for their medicinal use stretches back to the Ebers Papyrus in 1500 BCE. The problem clearly isn’t in their efficacy, it’s in their substantial risk for abuse and dependence. For proof, there’s no need to look further than the two million Americans who have a substance use disorder involving opioid-based prescription pain medications.

And talk about a “gateway drug!” A generation of D.A.R.E. graduate millennials will forever associate this term with marijuana, despite a dearth of evidence. But four-out-of-five heroin users started with a doctor’s prescription for FDA-approved pain meds. So to combat the opioid epidemic, one strategy is to reduce the need for high levels of opioid-based pain treatments.

That won’t be easy. Chronic pain (defined as pain lasting longer than three months) is one of the greatest hardships in the developing world. Some estimates even claim that it affects 30 percent of Americans. Currently, the most effective tool in the physician’s arsenal is treatment with opioids (for example: OxyContin, Percocet, Vicodin, and Fentanyl). In some cases, they should be used. After all, nothing combats pain like a good opioid treatment!

But without close monitoring, and repeated use, tolerance to the drug can develop. With tolerance, higher quantities and more frequent use is required to achieve pain relief. More prescriptions are filled, more pills consumed.

Is there a way to reduce the need to take so many opioids for pain relief?

The research suggests there is. There’s mounting evidence that cannabis may be an effective means of long-term pain relief when used in conjunction with small amounts of opioid-based pain killers. How can this be? Opioids work on the body’s opioid receptors, while cannabis works largely on the body’s cannabinoid receptors. Could it be that together, their effect is greater than the sum of their parts?

It’s important to recognize that pain is a subjective feeling.

There are no pain receptors in the brain, that when activated, give the sensation of pain. Instead, pain results from a complex interaction of incoming signals from the periphery (e.g., shoulder inflammation) with a host of cognitive factors (e.g., attention to the injury), context factors (e.g., expectation of pain), mood factors (e.g., depressed or anxious state), chemical factors (e.g., opioid system function) and genetic factors (e.g., predisposition to weaker endogenous opioid signaling).

Opioid pain medications are powerful drugs because they work to reduce pain at multiple levels. First, they can block incoming signaling from the periphery to the brain. The strength of the signals from your sore shoulder are weakened by activation of opioid receptors as they enter the spinal cord in their journey up to your brain. Weaker signals, less pain. This is known as ascending pain modulation, and opioids are really good at dampening pain signals.

Opioids also increase dopamine signaling in reward centers in your brain, thereby increasing your mood and further reducing subjective pain. You don’t need science to tell you that when you feel good, you experience less pain. But it’s not just due to actions in the brain. Your brain actively sends signals back down the spinal cord to modulate the incoming pain signals. These signals from the brain to the spinal cord work to reduce the strength of the incoming signals as they enter the spinal cord. The combination of ascending pain modulation (i.e., from the spinal cord to the brain) and descending pain modulation (i.e., from the brain to the spinal cord) can act to gate the perception of pain.

Like opioids, the endogenous cannabinoid system can similarly reduce pain.

Activating CB1 receptors in the brainstem region called the rostroventral medulla reduces pain through descending pain modulation. However, with pain caused by persistent inflammation, there’s a reduction in the number of CB1 receptors and an increase in CB2 receptors. Activating CB2 receptors in the rostroventral medulla reduces signaling by the inhibitory neurotransmitter, GABA, thereby freeing up the descending pain modulatory signals to reduce pain. So as pain matures from acute to chronic pain, relevant cannabinoid signaling shifts from acting through CB1 receptors to CB2 receptors.

Cannabinoids also have the power to increase dopamine signaling in the brain’s reward centers. Since chronic pain is associated with reduced dopamine signaling in the brain’s reward centers, increasing cannabinoid receptor activity in these regions can improve emotional elements related to the subjective pain experience. Together, and similar to opioids, cannabinoids can modulate pain through ascending and descending pain modulation, as well as modulating emotional elements relating to subjective pain.

So what’s the problem? Why not just smoke a lot of weed or pop a bunch of pills to quell the pain? You could try, and it would be effective… at first. The problem is tolerance.

Both opioid and cannabinoid receptors go through similar changes when activated. Activation of the receptors begins with binding of the neurotransmitter or exogenous drug (e.g., morphine for opioid receptors; THC for cannabinoid receptors) to the receptor. This initiates a series of molecular events inside the neuron that impact neurotransmitter release and provide the intended effect on pain and mood. But if the receptors are activated too frequently, as in the case with repeated pill popping or prolonged THC exposure, the molecular machinery inside the neuron puts a phosphate group on the receptors. This phosphate group prevents the receptor from functioning, and eventually, flags it to be removed from the cell’s membrane, internalized and destroyed.

Tolerance develops as the number of functioning receptors decreases. If you’ve felt the need to increase the number of hits in order to achieve your desired high, you’ve experienced tolerance.

With opioids, it’s particularly problematic. Withdrawal from prescription pain killers can be miserable, and opioid users who have experienced tolerance to their drugs must take increasing amounts just to prevent withdrawal. What began as opioid use intended to reduce pain and achieve a euphoric high eventually shifts towards pill popping just to relieve the symptoms of withdrawal. This level of dependence seeds addiction, which is fed by one prescription after the next until their supply is cut off by doctors or prohibitive cost. By this point, heroin feels like the most reasonable option. If only tolerance to the drug could be prevented in the first place.

Where does cannabis fit into this prescription pain killer story?

It would appear that we’re dealing with two vastly different drugs that act on independent targets. Turns out, the endogenous opioid system and cannabinoid system aren’t entirely independent. In fact, there’s evidence that they directly interact at the molecular level, which lead to behavioral consequences. Take for instance, the anxiolytic effect of low amounts of THC. In mice, a small amount of THC increases the amount of time a mouse spends in the anxiety-provoking illuminated half of a behavioral chamber. Blocking opioid receptors prevents the mice from venturing to the illuminated side of the chamber, thus obstructing THC’s anxiolytic effect.

The link between opioid and cannabinoid signaling also applies to pain.

In a seminal study, researchers found that co-administration of THC and opioids had a synergistic effect on pain relief. That is, the effect of the two drugs in combination was greater than the sum of their individual effects on pain relief.

The researchers first tested the effect of twice-daily THC or morphine injections on a paw-pressure pain test in rats. Initially, THC and morphine, alone, increased the amount of pressure the researchers could provide before the rat withdrew their paw, a measure of pain reduction. However, within a couple of days, the rats experienced tolerance, and neither the THC or morphine injections reduced pain. This coincided with a reduced number of functioning CB1 receptors (in the case of THC injections) or opioid receptors (in the case of morphine injections) in the spinal cord, important in the ascending pain pathway, and a brainstem region called the periaqueductal gray, important in the descending pain modulatory pathway. Reduced CB1 and opioid receptors in these areas led to tolerance and the ineffectiveness of the drugs after a few days.

Then, the researchers took a fascinating step further. They co-administered THC and morphine at substantially lower doses than those used to reduce pain on their own.

Morphine was administered at eight percent of the efficacious dose when used independently, and THC was administered at 20 percent of the efficacious dose. This combination led to substantial pain relief without inducing tolerance. And indeed, the combination of THC and morphine had no impact on the number of functioning CB1 and opioid receptors in the spinal cord or periaqueductal gray.

This is a critical finding.

Essentially, it proposes that one strategy to relieve pain and combat tolerance is by taking low doses of THC-rich cannabis in combination with low doses of opioids. On their own, they’re ineffective at these low concentrations, but in combination, they can be a potent tool for pain relief. And notably, by preventing tolerance from building, this strategy could cut one’s risk of spiraling towards addiction.

So where to go from here?

The opioid pharmaceutical industry is worth nearly $10 billion in sales in the U.S. alone, and you can guarantee that their powerful pharmaceutical lobby isn’t going to simply role over and quit. Why would they? Not only are they making money on the drug sales themselves, but there’s money to be made in treating opioid addiction (estimated at $1.4 billion), overdoses (estimated at $1.3 billion),and its side effects (estimated between $1.9 and $4.8 billion). Instead, research can provide the necessary ammunition.

What we have now is a starting point, but it’s not enough. We need more detailed assessments in rodent pre-clinical models for different types of pain, and we need to extend these studies to human clinical trials.

Most will welcome a new treatment strategy. Physicians are desperate for a more efficacious and safer long-term solution to treat their patients, and government officials (those who aren’t in the opioid-lobby’s pocket) are desperately seeking a solution to the $53.4 billion/year social cost of opioid abuse in this country.

Public perception needs to shift, and research will help.

Opioids are still largely considered safe since they’re prescribed by a doctor and are dispensed by a pharmacist in a white coat. Unfortunately, cannabis is still widely associated with illegality and comes with the social stigma engendered by decades of false propaganda. Cannabis’ prohibition has not only led to significant social costs, but through research and access restrictions, inadvertently led to increased suffering.

But with the recent ballot initiatives passed in a number of states, the acceptance of cannabis is vastly increasing. This increased momentum, as we begin 2017, may provide the fuel by which cannabis rescues us from the opioid epidemic.

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