US Stem Cell Inc (USRM)

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Stem Cell Therapy Combating The Opioid Epidemic

Since 1999, overdoses from prescription opioids have quadrupled. In 2015, opioids resulted in 33,000 deaths in 2015. Much of these deaths are due to addiction. Prescribed drugs like oxycodone, hydrocodone or methadone are readily used to combat chronic pain, specifically back and neck pain.

Stem cells have the healing potential to relieve millions from not just their chronic pain, but their potential habit of opioids. By injecting bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells into a vertebral disc, these cells can help rebuild the damaged tissue. Opioids simply mask the issue with relieving pain. Stem cells regeneration not only combats pain, but does so in that it is healing the ailment causing the pain.

Degenerative disc disease is a large component of chronic lower back pain. The discs between our vertebrae can dry out from aging and from continual wear and tear. The reduction in these “shock absorbers can result in nerve damage, inflammation, and bone on bone pain.

So how do you fight an epidemic? Collaboration, awareness, and research. Mainly from doctors, the government, and the community. Stem cell therapy has become an interesting division in the eyes of all these entities. Those that swear by it, those that oppose it, and those that are uncertain. Those that swear by it need to be transparent and appropriately educate patients that this is not always a surefire fix. There are many different scenarios such as age and to what extent the damage is. It’s important to address that stem cell therapy may not help particular individuals. For those that oppose it. Look at the outcomes of all that have benefited from the procedure. The MIR’s coming back showing a rebuilding of tissue and relief in pain. For those who are uncertain; talk to your medical physician, do research and consider the alternatives (surgery, drugs, therapy).

PRSC reviews each person as an individual. We do not claim to have the answer to all chronic pain. But with continued research and increase of technologies, we believe that stem cell therapy is a safe and effective way to fight chronic pain and there for the opioid epidemic.

https://prstemcell.com/news-blog/combatingopiods/