Timeline on the Opiate Cure
It was in 2006 that I first witnessed the opiate cure, which is the control of bipolar disorder with opiates. In this blog I want to give you a timeline of the acceptance of this idea by physicians, particularly pain doctors, those who prescribe opiates liberally.
I employ three methods in efforts to disseminate knowledge of my observation. One is in my consultation notes which I routinely copy to the referring physician but also to my patient's psychiatrist. I also created this website to publicize the opiate cure and in late 2008 I published my second book, Curing Chronic Pain, in which I discussed in print the Opiate Cure. By remarkable coincidence about the same time Doctor Peter Tenore at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine published a major paper describing the mood stabilizing and antidepressant effects of Methadone. Thus there appeared almost simultaneously, my book for lay persons who suffer chronic pain and his paper for the Scientific Community.
I attend two or three National or Regional meetings each year on the subject of physciatry or pain management and I make a point of asking the appropriate speaker if he or she had any experience with the opiate cure. Until recently my comments have been disparaged, often with a harangue that I shouldn't be using Methadone because it was dangerous and addictive. That seems to be changing a bit now. A few months back at a pain conference I made my obligatory inquiries and was surprised when a speaker told me she had witnessed the opiate cure. More recently at a conference on Opiate Therapy I asked the same questions of one of the speakers and he told me that he too had seen it and that the Opiate Cure was real. Also, a recent patient moved to my area from Kansas City. His Doctor told him they were giving him Methadone for pain because he was bipolar. So the word is getting out, albeit too slowly for my taste.
I have a very dear patient with pain and bipolar disorder who is an enthusiastic supporter of my ideas. She is well read and intelligent. She tells me, and I have no idea what source she has for this information, that a really new idea takes ten years to reach fruition.
Well, we are half way there.
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