WALTER F. WRENN, III M.D. A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF ADDICTIONS, PAIN, DEPENDENCY
Walter F. Wrenn III M.D
A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING
There have been many theories surrounding addiction. There have been papers written by so-called experts who sight statistics to back them up.
A medical specialist with board certification in pain and addiction has been established. Recommendations and laws have been enacted without a clear understanding of the problem.
Health care providers have been arrested and convicted of violations of these laws and recommendations. Despite all the actions taken deaths from addiction continue to rise.
Individuals continue to be deprived of adequate pain medication causing them to either go to the streets for relief overdose and die or commit suicide because the pain is too unbearable.
These individuals are ignored when reporting deaths from a drug overdose. As a person who grew up in the inner city, I had a front-row seat watching the consequences of addiction.
The idea that opiate prescription medication is responsible for the opiate epidemic ignores the actual truth.
ADDICTED TO HEROIN
In 1954 I saw people who were addicted to heroin. One of my friends was curious.
The young lady who was the object of his curiosity first tried to discourage him. Eventually, she decided to help him experience injecting himself with heroin. I watched this event as the heroin was being prepared in a spoon and drawn into a syringe.
The tourniquet a rubber tube was tied tightly around his arm. The needle was inserted and the tourniquet was released. The heroin was slowly pushed by the young lady into his vein.
He started to feel the effects of the heroin and then entered into a euphoric state. He said I should try it. I told him he was crazy and I wasn’t putting anything into my body. I remember that event until this day. This individual was a good student.
He finished high school and was accepted to Lincoln University in Oxford but his addiction was so severe eventually he was dismissed from Lincoln moved to California and battled this addiction for his entire life.
Most addictions begin to like my friends. Curiosity and recreational use. Today it may begin with the use of a parent’s opiate pain medication left in the medicine cabinet. Again curiosity and recreational.
The how and why can be debated. Ignored and not discussed even by physicians is the physiological action of opiates on the body and brain and the role of opiate receptors found in the body and brain.
Without this knowledge and understanding, no one can accurately talk about the cause of opiate addiction or how to treat it.
UNDERSTANDING THE MU RECEPTOR
Since the first opiate receptor, the Mu receptor was not discovered until 1972 any study prior to 1972 about addiction can’t be accepted by the medical community or the general public.
Also making studies more difficult is that it is almost impossible to study this unreliable group of individuals.
In order to properly address the problem of addiction, we need to examine our prior thinking and conclusions that have caused great harm to patients and health care providers.
We have to determine the physiological action of not only the Mu receptor but the Delta and Sigma receptors. Let’s study the problem first then do the appropriate clinical trials and then offer solutions.
Walter F. Wrenn III M.D
FOR NOW, YOU ARE WITHIN
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Dr, Thomas Kline I believe correctly pointed out what the ‘addictions’ are, …and why, and that these represent the state of the art and “the science” and medical facts in truth. See;
https://thomasklinemd.medium.com/the-abcs-of-addiction-syndromes-f02755384b2f
I, personally, condense Dr. Kline’s thoughts about TRUE opiate use disorders and TRUE addiction this way (…as many of you have already seen a bazillion times…);
There ARE ten-million incurable severe pain sufferers abandoned for “opioid crisis” which is entirely the ‘street’, illicit use, multi-drug overdose issue.
True addiction is very rare and is GENETIC. 996 0f 1000 will NEVER ADDICT. Opiates never addicted anyone. One must have the genetic predisposition to hyper-respond in the reward center perhaps triggering self-destructive, impulsive, uncontrolled ‘seeking’, or True Addiction. 996 in 1000 will never addict.
Withdrawal is just as bad as it looks. NUT withdrawal is NOT evidence of addiction.
Illicit opiate consumers caught in the use/withdrawal, use/arrest, use/overdose cycle must lead themselves to COMPLETE withdrawals, …then they will whistle again.
America’s sickest folks simply can not be the unintended consequences for the erroneous response to and the misunderstanding of TRUE addiction, opiate use disorders and overdosers which problems can not be more separate from the needs for medicinal opiates prescribed by doctors of medicine for acute and chronic severe pain.
Genetics is only one part of the cause of addiction. The biggest cause is toxicity. It is explained in my webinar recording that is on the menu of http://www.doctorsofcourage.org.
“Without this knowledge and understanding, no one can accurately talk about the cause of opiate addiction or how to treat it.” is BS. The “brain disease” hypothesis is just conventional medicine’s usual attempt to create an explanation that they can’t explain. Most conventional explanations are thrown out a few years later. I explain the REAL cause of drug abuse and the cure. I offer a course now that people can learn a lot more about healing and about disease than any conventional medicine offers. I recommend that anyone interested in true medicine take the course.