In Pain: A Bioethicist’s Personal Struggle with Opioids Audiobook (Free)

A bioethicist’s eloquent and riveting memoir of opioid dependence and withdrawal-a harrowing personal reckoning and clarion call for change not only for authorities but medication itself, revealing the lack of crucial assets and structures to handle this insidious nationwide epidemic.

Travis Rieder’s terrifying journey down the rabbit hole of opioid dependence began having a motorbike incident in 2015. Long lasting half a dozen surgeries, the medicines he received had been both miraculous and necessary to about In Discomfort: A Bioethicist’s Personal Struggle with Opioids his recovery. But his most profound suffering arrived several months later on when he went into severe opioid withdrawal while pursuing his physician’s purchases. During the period of four excruciating weeks, Rieder learned what it means to become “dope unwell”-the physical and mental agony caused by opioid dependence. Clueless how exactly to manage his opioid taper, Travis’s doctors suggested he go back on the medicines and try again later. Yet returning to pills out of fear of withdrawal can be one path to full-blown obsession. Instead, Rieder continued the painful procedure for weaning himself.

Rieder’s encounter exposes a dark secret of American pain management: a healthcare system thus conflicted about opioids, and so inept in managing them, how the crisis currently facing us is both unsurprising and inevitable. As he recounts his tale, Rieder offers a fascinating go through the history of the drugs first invented in the 1800s, changing behaviour about discomfort management over the following decades, as well as the implementation from the discomfort scale at the start from the twenty-first century. He explores both science of dependency and the systemic and cultural barriers we should conquer if we are to address the problem efficiently in the modern American healthcare system.

In Pain isn’t just a gripping personal account of dependence, but a groundbreaking exploration of the intractable factors behind America’s opioid problem and their implications for resolving the crisis. Rieder makes apparent which the opioid crisis is present against a backdrop of genuine, debilitating pain-and that anyone can fall sufferer to this epidemic.