just to be technically correct getonline33, I wasnt saying at any point opiate medicines increase dopamine levels, if i did my apologies. It is well known and your doctor will tell you when you use opiate medicines your body slacks on dopamine production. also any doctor worth their salt will tell you 1 dopamine edoraphin has the pain alleviating potential of 100x that of morphine.

read between the lines. This series of posts is to AID opiate users. the supplements are taken IN ADDITION TO your opiate medicine. thus with the increased levels of dopamine from the prescene of necesarry amino acids, your ain medications become mroe effective or return to their former effectiveness.

lets go by just how you said it, for example. the opiate blocks the receptor site allowing for more dopamine in the synapse, causing the high, pain alleviating feeling. IF you had say twice as much dopamine for your brain/body to attempt to put into the receptor sites, then there would be twice as much floating around in the synapse when you take you pain meds and hopefully by some small miracle your pain will be less

I am not trying to advocate alternate therapy in place of opiate therapy. I am trying to advocate taking care of your body and its natural processes so your medicines are more effective and your bod has the fuels it needs to help attempt to heal itself, and so people live in less misery.

please forgive me if my comments seem posted in haste or ignorance, for my true goal is to help people help themselves in and on every dimension possible.