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How to Overcome Painkiller Addiction

Each one of us at different levels of our lives, have suffered a pain. Headaches are a common example of pain and one may need to take a painkiller. However, if abused, it may end up becoming the bigger problem than the headache. You take a pain-killer when you first start getting headaches because it is 'just a headache' but as the headaches become frequent and last longer, your use of pain killers also increase and before you realize it, you are addicted to painkillers taking as much as 20 tablets a day. When you finally go to see a doctor, you are shocked when you are told that the pain medication you depend on to relieve your headaches were actually the ones causing the headaches! You are the unintended victim of analgesic headaches caused by overuse of painkillers. Nearly all over-the-counter painkillers and prescription headache medicines cause analgesic rebound headaches. The cause is not the drug itself but the over use. PainKiller Side Effects A person with fre...