Addiction and Tolerance to Dihydrocodeine>> Is there a way to withdraw successfully?

From: Helen Dynda (olddad66@runestone.net)
Tue Nov 30 11:05:25 1999

I received an email from a fellow adhesions-sufferer who has become dependent and has developed a tolerance to the medication he is taking. Dihydrocodeine is an opiate agonist medication. In his letter he said:

"The pain controlling medication that I am using is Dihydrocodeine 180mgs a day. Unfortunately I have become dependent on this and it no longer offers the amount of pain control I now need. I am also on Amitriptyline but only 25mgs a day."

Since I do not have an addiction and tolerance to the medications which I take for chronic pain, I would like to know if any of you have experienced addiction and tolerance to any of the medications which you have taken...and if so, were you able to be detoxified successfully from that medication?

Thanks for sharing your experience! 

--
The 15th century proverb which summarizes the purpose of medicine is:
* To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always. *

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