Topic: pain

If a life in balance is the ideal, then a broader approach has a better shot at sustainability.

As the old chief says in the movie Little Big Man: “Sometimes the magic works, sometimes it doesn’t.”

The pharmaceutical industry, in spite of their immense resources, may not be the best candidate to come up with a solution.

It may turn out that chronic pain, like addiction, is one of those conditions that responds best to an approach that’s both individualized and ongoing, and requires considerable commitment on the patient’s part.

It takes thirty seconds to write a prescription… that fits very well into a scheduled 15 minute office visit.

Mood and motivation are, of course, a big part of the discomfort associated with having chronic pain.

Diversion to abuse has been significant. Currently methadone represents only some two percent of all opioid prescriptions, but it’s been implicated in an astounding one-third of all opioid fatalities.

People have abused opiates for 5,000 years. As much as medicine depends on them, they’ve always created problems for a percentage of users.