Welcome to OpiateRelief.com This blog is for prescription pill users, their families and addiction professionals. With all of the media attention and hand wringing around these issues, I wanted to provide some straight talk about the nature of the illness (what often drives people’s need to use), some sorely needed support, and finally guidance, as to which programs for adult and teens are proving effective for prescription pill addiction.

Jerry Bayer has a master’s degree in Public Policy from California State University, Sonoma, including a year as a Research Associate at the University of California, Berkeley. He started working in the addiction treatment field in 1970 in the Bronx, New York, and has worked at treatment centers across the country designing, developing and evaluating a wide variety of treatment services and programs... - Read More