Las Vegas Recovery Center offers treatment to those who are addicted to opiates. We also provide innovative and proven, opiate free pain treatment to those who seek an alternative to traditional pain management.

While we do not offer traditional opiate pain treatment, we feel it is important to build awareness and educate the public about the potential pit-falls of main stream pain treatment that leaves hundreds of thousands desperately seeking innovative solutions to deal with relentless chronic pain.

Pain is the most frequent reason Americans seek medical attention, and its treatment is the specialty of thousands of professionals across the United States. Unfortunately, pain is most often inadequately treated, which leads to enormous social costs.

By far, the most prevalent treatments for pain are medications. They are the easiest method of treating pain, requiring the least amount of effort by physicians and patients. They work quickly and provide relief (at least, at first). In our culture, physicians are encouraged to treat chronic pain in order to spare the patients suffering. Pain is the “fifth vital sign” and should be measured and treated. Perceived barriers to “proper” prescribing of opioids are to be overcome. Those doctors who are reluctant to prescribe them are labeled “opiophobic.” In this decade, there has been a proliferation of pain clinics notorious for overprescribing large amounts of painkillers without proper evaluation and follow-up. Impediments to the use of opioids include concerns about addiction, side effects, tolerance, and possible problems with regulatory agencies for overprescribing.

For years the number of people experiencing chronic pain and coexisting psychological disorders including addiction has been increasing significantly. In 2003, according to Peter D. Hart Research Associates, the majority of adults in the United States (57 percent) have experienced chronic or recurrent pain in the last year. According to the American Chronic Pain Association, there are approximately 100 million Americans suffering from chronic pain.

Research published in Pain Physician Journal (2006) reports that 90 percent of people in the United States receiving treatment for pain management are prescribed opiate medication. Of that number, 18 percent to 41 percent had opiate abuse/addiction problems. At least eighty billion dollars is spent for pain relief in the United States each year, a significant amount of which is for prescription medications. What is harder to quantify is the emotional cost to family systems when one or more members suffer with a chronic pain condition.

According to some professionals, we have entered an era of a prescription drug epidemic. Deaths related to overdose of opioids are on the rise, and since 2006 opioids have become the number-one most abused legal drug in the United States. Because of this, the DEA and FDA have created a panel of experts to develop Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) to minimize the risk of inappropriate prescribing and bad outcomes.