Care recipient (cr) is addicted to pain pills

Try: Make note of all medications and count them daily discuss the problem with the cr and make him or her aware that you know about the problem remind the cr the quantity and time the medication should be taken if the problem persists consider this an addiction and continue with the following locate a local support group and encourage the cr to enroll or begin reading watching resource materials from the group if he or she cannot attend make a plan to reduce chronic pain without the use of pain pills find out the source of the pain and research pain relieving strategies such as massage chiropractic care acupuncture etc

Materials: Medication log local addiction resources

Categories: Behavior Challenging, Emotional Psychological, Maintenance, Medical Physical, Personal, Some Supervision, Maximum Supervision

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Keywords: Addiction pain pills chronic pain massage chiropractic care acupuncture

*This information is listed as a Tip and is not explicitly medically licensed

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