Using Meditation to Battle Opioid Use – WesternSlopeNow

Posted: March 29, 2017 at 9:43 am


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Nationwide there is an opioid epidemic. Urban communities are seeing a high increase in overdose deaths from opioids, but rural communities have seen a higher percentage of deaths in Colorado.

From 2002 - 2014 urban communities in Colorado have seen a 96% increase in overdoses, but rural communities have seen an increase of 140%.

Due to that concern, a wellness center in Montrose is going a different route to help people deal with pain.

The impact on rural communities is more significant because our resources tend to be thinner, said Nicolas Taylor, a Psychologist at the Solutions Wellness Center in Montrose.

One resource that the rural community of Montrose has is the Solutions Wellness Center which will soon be hosting classes to help people deal with pain without prescription medication.

There has been a big push to look for additional ways to treat it in addition to traditional medications and things like that, said Karen Dunn Pritchard, a Counselor at Solutions Wellness Center.

The class is called Living Well with Chronic Pain and Illness which Dunn Pritchard is hosting, and it is centered around Mindfulness therapy which uses things like meditation.

There is a huge body of research still being built that shows how effective it is at helping reduce peoples felt sense of pain, said Dunn Pritchard.

With using mindfulness and coping skills for pain management, Dunn Pritchard is optimistic.

Through those exercises people hopefully will experience and learn that they have greater amount of control over how their are experiencing their pain than they thought they did before, said Dunn Pritchard.

The classes start April 13th, and if youre interested in signing up, contact the Solutions Wellness Center at 970-249-4449.

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