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A Drug User’s Guide (#7-Drugs)
Using drugs is like using doctors. When done correctly, you can benefit, sometimes greatly. Done poorly, you’ll just add to your problems. Be rational. Act wisely. At the beginning of this series, I listed 3 questions I ask myself about drugs (see Thinking About Drugs): What does the drug do? How is it used? What are its risks? I believe you should do your best to get answers to these questions yourself. Ultimately, you will be the one who decides whether or not to use any drug you are offered. You are the one who will bear the consequences of your decision. Even though the burden of your pain may be great and the last thing you want is to take on more responsibility, the stakes are very high when it comes to drug use. If you don’t try to be rational and choose wisely, you are setting the odds against yourself. Find out … [Read More...]
The Mindbody Pain Management Story
Mindbody Training (MBT) offers programs to men and women who wish to enhance performance, improve health and increase well-being. Training methods make use of ancient practices such as meditation as well as current understanding of cognitive and physiological processes. The result is a complete system … [Read More...]
Who We Are

Jan Carstoniu, MD, FRCPC Medical Director Dr. Carstoniu has been a licensed physician in the province of Ontario since 1986. He is a certified … [Read More...]
drugs – article series
Thinking About Drugs (#1-Drugs)
The very word drug, immediately conjures a multitude of connotations that reflect our many views of the pharmaceutical and herbal substances we ingest. … [Read More...]
Molecules (#2-Drugs)
I’ve already defined as a drug, anything you swallow, inject, inhale or absorb through body tissue to modify some mental or physical function. (See Drug … [Read More...]
Testing (#3-Drugs)
There are really only two main ways to determine if a drug does what it is supposed to do. One way is to give the drug to people and observe what happens. … [Read More...]
Risk and Benefit (#4-Drugs)
What if there was a drug that could completely relieve your pain but carried a 1 in a hundred thousand chance of killing you? Would you try it? What if … [Read More...]
Opioids – Threat or Menace? (#5-Drugs)
Please forgive me for paraphrasing the title of an article about drug use published in the humor magazine the National Lampoon more than 30 years ago. … [Read More...]
Stories

The Boat Story
by Eric Reynolds. In 1994 I had my most personal experience with chronic pain. It started in late September of that year with a simple and often repeated movement. That of lifting a small rowboat. Actually the magic moment happened after I had put the boat down and generated an adventure in pain that became my motivator for teaching Mindbody Training methods to people dealing with similar issues. I was at our family cottage and we were closing it for the season. This involves putting all the lawn … [Read More...]
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