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A specialist in addiction medicine offers guidance in identifying opioid misuse and the appropriate means of withdrawing patients from long term opioid therapy. The longer term management and rehabilitation of these patients is also considered.
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Dr. Weaver discusses the consequences of alcohol use disorder (AUD) for the development and management of chronic pain syndromes. Techniques for screening for AUD, and motivational interviewing as a therapeutic technique are also considered.
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Chronic pain patients who fail standard treatments represent a growing problem, and a dilemma for health care providers. A pain specialist and senior PAINWeek faculty member discusses what we know about treatment failure, and outlines some elements of a successful treatment approach.
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Dr. Reid reviews some of the age-related complications of geriatric pain management, and discusses the safety and efficacy of both pharmacologic and alternative treatment modalities. The value of collaborative models of care delivery for this patient group is also considered.
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Why is complex regional pain syndrome a frustrating and challenging patient presentation? This segment outlines some of the reasons, and offers some pointers on diagnosis and treatment.
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If we look at pain and we look at depression, pain is costing us about 600 billion dollars a year. Depression alone is costing us about 100 billion dollars a year. The comorbidity of these problems is extremely high--about 50 to 65 percent. With regard to treating people who are suffering with...
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EPCS—electronic prescribing of controlled substances—offers the prospect of enhanced prescribing efficiency and improved patient safety. In this segment, Dr. Kelly outlines some DEA requirements that providers must meet to take advantage of this prescribing advance.
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The cost of treating chronic pain now exceeds $500 billion annually, and conventional approaches deliver more failures than successes. Dr. Kaplan discusses why our failure is rooted in a misunderstanding of the problem, and asserts that the comorbidities of pain and depression are, in actuality...
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Treating Chronic pain often reveals misalignments between patients and healthcare providers, including incongruity of expectations over what constitutes success. Dr. Zacharoff considers why and how the mismatch may arise, and how it might be minimized or avoided.
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Patients with pain often report feeling discounted by health care providers, family, coworkers and caregivers. Dr. Geraghty comments on the etiquette of successful patient communication so that patients feel validated and better treatment outcomes are achieved.