Oxycodone abuse is now considered an epidemic across the country. From a prescription Oxycodone Addict to Herbalist Barber, In The Weeds can't wait to sit down with Chad Padgett MH and share a different but all to common life changing story, this one, starting in his local Doctor's office.
Chad, like many who have become addicted to prescription opioids, didn’t get his drugs off the black market, they were prescribed for his serious medical issues by his hometown doctor.
After removal of his spleen in 1990, then his gallbladder in 1992, by the fall of 2007, he was diagnosed with acute pancreatitis which left Chad officially disabled. A year later Padgett was told that his chronic pancreatitis would lead to diabetes and pancreatic cancer, and gave him 7 years to live.
“After being put on methadone and oxycodone, then having several endoscopic ultra-sounds with pain block procedures, two endoscopic procedures, then a stint placed in my pancreas, I was advised that I needed pancreatic enzymes and a dilaudid pain pump inserted into my spine,” Padgett shared. The oxycodone was no longer working on its own, so, I was then prescribed methadone along with the oxycodone, with an increase to 90 milligrams of both, daily.”
By 2013, after six years of procedures, and eventual addiction to oxycodone and methadone, Chad's doctor’s seven year death sentence was staring him in the face. Padgett decided he wasn’t going to lay, slowly dying, in a hospital bed for the alleged last year of his life.
“That’s when I tried a simple cannabis vegetable glycerin tincture,” he explained. “My Oxycodone intake dropped from 90 milligrams a day to 30 milligrams immediately. I only had a ten day supply of the tincture, and the first day without it I was back to 90 milligrams of oxycodone.”
That is when Chad's life changed for the better.
“I then obtained 20 grams of high THC full extract cannabis oil and successfully treated my Chronic Pancreatitis, while simultaneously coming off all of the narcotics in a three week period at home.” The analgesic effects of the cannabis, along with its anti-nausea properties, quell the harsh withdrawal symptoms associated with transitioning off opioids.
Padgett said he’s been narcotic-free since then, with no looking back, as the benefits of cannabis replaced the pain killers, while putting his chronic illness into remission.
“Now I’m focused on changing Indiana’s Draconian cannabis laws,” he declared. “I was Indiana’s speaker for Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) for a few years, and that allowed me to testify in the Indiana Senate Summer Marijuana Study of 2011; with my testimony quoted in Doug Fine’s book, ‘Too High To Fail.’”
Newfound health changed Padgett’s disabled status, and he went back to school and trained to be a barber. But, his knowledge of cannabis led him to the realization of other beneficial herbs, and Chad went on to receive a diploma as a Master Herbalist. Now a Medical Cannabis Activist, ReLegalize Indiana Board Member, Regional Director at Indiana NORML and Owner of Padg's Apothecary LLC, we can't wait to sit down and hear Chad's amazing story.
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