Articles by Dr. Erdman are for informational purposes, and are not to be taken as specific medical advice.
In the second part of this two column series on opioid use
and abuse, we will cover some health issues caused by the drugs and what other
remedies may be effective for pain control.
First, though, a recap is in order. Many politicians and
doctors now regard opioid addiction as a ‘disease.’ Unfortunately, it is a
disease knowingly created by the drug making industry with the federal governments’
permission. These are facts, based on admissions of falsely advertising their
pills to doctors and patients in a court, and paying hundreds of millions in
fines. The government is culpable because they believed the company’s initial
lies and sanctioned their use to the public. Read the last article for an in
depth review of these matters.
As it turns out, opioid drugs are very potent immune
suppressors. They wreck your health from day one, leaving your health worse off
by simply taking these drugs. It has been shown that these drugs cause an over
stimulation of the opioid receptors, resulting in severe immune impairment.
According to Dr. Thomas Cowan from the Weston Price
Foundation, “you will typically see that as soon as a patient starts taking
opiates for chronic pain [or whatever reason] their health rapidly declines as
their immune system becomes increasingly compromised.”