DVD: Beyond Opiates

Running Time: 33 minutes

Copyright: 2013

Format: DVD

Spanish sub-titles

Closed Captioned

This video presents a fresh perspective on the science of pain and how it influences recovery from opioid dependency. The content focuses on a new paradigm for understanding chronic pain, showing how the extended use of prescription painkillers increases the sensitivity of the nerve cells thereby magnifying pain (hyperalgesia, hyperpathia, allodynia.) Interviews with recovering addicts and treatment professionals illustrate the challenges opiate addiction creates and presents a message of hope and encouragement for clients to examine recovery in light of this new view of treating dependency and pain.

Featuring:

Darryl Inaba, PharmD
Research Scientist,
former CEO Haight-Ashbury Free Clinics

Andrew B. Mendenhall, M.D.

Medical Director,
Co-founder of HealthWorksNW
Medical Director, Hazelden
Beaverton, Oregon

Nigel Wrangham
Drug & Alcohol Counselor
Instructor, University of Oregon