Practical Ways to Avoid Pain Meds

In Recovery

Lemonada Media

Health & Fitness

4.8 • 718 Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

When Nicole showed up for a routine colonoscopy, she was shocked when the anesthesiologist planned to give her fentanyl. She reflects on how close she felt to losing the sobriety she fought so hard for. Can you refuse opioids as a patient in recovery? What other options are out there for treating chronic pain? And does “all-natural” really mean “all-safe?” Nzinga answers these questions and more about pain, alternative medicine, and the rights you have as a patient.

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0:36.6	I can't even imagine what the point of giving that to me was, and it scared me so much.
0:44.3	It would have just undone a lot of the things that I had accomplished.
0:50.0	And they were just giving it out so freely and not knowing that that little thing could really send somebody off the path that they're on.
1:07.4	Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, good middle of the night, depending on what time you're listening.
1:12.5	This is In Zenga, and you're listening to In Recovery. Today we're talking about pain.
1:18.5	But before we get in today's episode, let me give you just a quick, high level on me on the show,
1:23.4	for those who might be new. In recovery is about all things addiction. Drugs, alcohol, heroin, marijuana, you name it.
1:30.3	But also addictions that we don't typically talk about like work, sex, exercise, relationships.
1:36.3	And what we're really trying to do here is answer your questions in a way that is based in the medical science and the evidence, but more importantly, in compassion
1:45.1	and breaking down these artificial barriers that we draw between, quote, people who are addicted
1:50.6	and the rest of us, because in reality, it is just all of us. So I'm your host because I have a
1:57.7	decade and a half plus of medical expertise taking care of people with addiction.
2:02.8	I'm a physician, psychiatrist, addiction expert.
2:06.9	I believe in this so much that I co-founded my own company where I'm also chief medical officer.
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