“When you eat, you’re not just refueling your body, you’re feeding your brain” 

Dr. James Cocores.

Opiate addiction or dependence is a potentially fatal, repetitive, self-defeating behavior. People suffering from this medical disease of the mind keep taking opiates in order to temporarily feel better, feel less emotional, or feel less physical pain. People who are held captive by these drugs tend to have pleasure- or relief-seeking, extremist, and compulsive types of personalities and suffer from severe emotional or physical pain. Intense emotional or physical pain is often associated with Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), bipolar disorder, fibromyalgia, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, severe arthritis, and physical trauma associated with accidents and complicated surgery.

Some of the most commonly abused synthetic and naturally occurring opiates include:

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