Addictive pain relievers Oxycodone and Percocet (not needed as much if have enough vitamin D?)

See also VitaminDWiki

• Overview Pain and Vitamin D

• Chronic pain 40 percent less intense associated with 10 nanogram more vitamin D – April 2014

• Vitamin D reduced skeletal pain in 85 percent of the patients – Nov 2012

• If you cannot readily get medical treatment, consider Alternative Med such as vitamin D

• 100 Million Americans Have Chronic Pain – IoM June 2011 sometime during the year - not all at the same time

• Off Topic: 4X increase in Americans taking morphine-type drugs in last decade (consider Vitamin D instead) – Aug 2014

  • Many of IoM members had conflicts-of-interest with Big Pharma

• Overview Fibromyalgia or Chronic Fatigue and vitamin D

• Hypothesis: Drug addiction in humans can be prevented and treated by vitamin D -May 2014

See also web

• Chronic-Pain Patients With Low Vitamin D Need More Narcotics date unknown
  • Among patients who need heavy-duty pain medication, those with low levels of vitamin D in their blood need nearly twice the dosage of narcotic drugs to manage their chronic pain, a recent study discovered
  • Discussing the same study
  • Publisher charges low price to read the 2008 study but cannot show it to the public.

• Treato forum discussions on Oxycodone and vitamin D

• Help for Percocet withdrawal March 2013 – nothing about vitamin D

• Prescription Overdose Deaths in Florida Plunge After Tougher Measures, Report Says NYT July 2014, no mention of vitamin D - has the following CDC chart