Fatal Drug Overdose has Surpassed Car Crashes in Death Tolls
Fatal prescription drug overdoses surpassed car crashes as the
leading cause of accidental death in 2007, according to the Department of
Health. Many of the overdoses (36 percent) involve prescription opioid painkillers, which were actually the cause
of more overdose deaths than heroin and cocaine combined. Now we see in the
headlines that a common treatment for back pain, epidural steroid injections,
is the cause of a National health emergency.
It is Time for Alternative Care to be Given a Safe and Respectable Place in Chronic Pain Treatment
As someone who has been
a leader in the field of pain management for 20 years, I think it's time that
alternative cares are given their safe and respected place in the treatment of
chronic pain. Chiropractic care has proven to be a safe, drug-less,
non-surgical approach for more then a century and yet only 8% of the population
seeks this form of care. The mainstream media and the pharmaceutical companies
have had the bankrolls to lead people to believe that the drug and surgery
avenue is the only means of success to overall health. If one were to say the
words "drugs and surgery are the pathway to health" I think anyone
would shake their head in disagreement but yet we are brainwashed everyday that
its the only path to feeling well.
Chiropractic Care is the Safest Method of Treatment
If only 8% of society
is aware of or given access to Chiropractic care then we are failing to fight
this dreadful path of increased deaths do to drug overdosing and the obvious
risks associated with medical procedures. As we are bombarded with the reminder
of the risks of these procedures from the media with the outbreak of meningitis
due to epidural steroid injections I plead to the masses to spread the word on
one of the safest healing arts existing today, Chiropractic.
Dr. John Rosa
