A rheumatoid arthritic patient fights pain killer addiction 0001

Dr. Michael Brooks, chair of psychiatry at Brighton Hospital, MI, USA discusses pain killer addiction with Michelle, a rheumatoid arthritic, who suffers with pain so crippling that she spent more than a year in a wheelchair, and became addicted to the pain killers physicians had prescribed for the pain of her rheumatoid arthritis. Michelle began abusing the pain killers, her quality of life was vanishing, and finally she admitted herself to Brighton Hospital, America’s second oldest addiction treatment facility. There, with the help of Suboxone (buprenorphine) Michelle is living, walking and enjoying her life again as a loving wife, mother and grandmother. She discusses her challenges and the help she received at Brighton Hospital with Michael Brooks DO, a nationally recognized leader in the use of Suboxone in a complete regimen of medication and behavioral 12 step recovery.