When the pain is much more severe than normal-like a painful operation or a severe injury, the body’s endorphins are normally not produced in a quantity that is able to sufficiently reduce the pain. The solution now being used by the medical establishment is to give opiates. The opiates trigger the same responses in the body as the endorphins, and the person feels relief and, depending on the dosage, even a feeling of euphoria. For most people, if they take opiates for a short period of time and then stop taking them, their withdrawal is not severe, and many don’t experience any of the more severe withdrawal symptoms.
The real problem is when a person takes opiates for a longer period of time; they are more likely to become physically dependent. They have to have the opiate to control the pain or the fear of the pain or addiction disease. They have to have the opiate for the feeling of pleasure it provides and will do anything, no matter how destructive to them or others, to obtain the opiate. Each opiate user will experience different reactions. However, we know that as more opiates are used, the body starts to produce less and fewer endorphins. The body’s natural response to pain, the production of endorphins, lessens and increasingly, the only way for a person to deal with pain is to take opiates. We also know that most people develop a tolerance for opiates. This means that in order for the opiate to have the desired effect, more and more opiates must ...