Pain Wars
We recognize the important role that depression and anxiety play in determining the patient's experience of pain.
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by C. Scott McMillin | Jun 27, 2022 | Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
We recognize the important role that depression and anxiety play in determining the patient's experience of pain.
by C. Scott McMillin | Nov 22, 2021 | Addiction Clinicians | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Feb 6, 2020 | Programs, Treatment | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Dec 19, 2019 | Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jun 24, 2019 | Thinking About Addiction, Treatment | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Mar 28, 2019 | Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Oct 18, 2018 | Addictive Substances, Thinking About Addiction | 1 |
In the past, we’ve flung opioids at the problem, and haven’t developed alternatives.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Sep 27, 2018 | Thinking About Addiction, Treatment | 0 |
Not everybody wants to remain dependent on pain medication. But at present, we offer few if any alternatives to doing it on your own.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Sep 13, 2018 | Thinking About Addiction, Treatment | 0 |
Perhaps more important, the patient could begin to resume a normal life.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Aug 16, 2018 | Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
The goal is to eventually develop an objective scale by which pain can be measured not by self-report, but by neuroimaging.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Apr 5, 2018 | Public Health | 0 |
Based on the vast number of prescriptions for opioid medications written by US practitioners over the past few decades, we’ve become the clear leaders in opioid prescribing.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 29, 2018 | In the News | 0 |
Is that pain evidence of a worsening physical condition or of drug withdrawal?
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Feb 22, 2018 | Addictive Substances, Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
We may be stuck relying on the soft stuff– therapy, support, behavior change, even spiritual growth– all those icky-squicky things that neuroscientists struggle to quantify.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Sep 14, 2017 | Thinking About Addiction, Treatment | 0 |
If a life in balance is the ideal, then a broader approach has a better shot at sustainability.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jun 26, 2017 | Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
As the old chief says in the movie Little Big Man: “Sometimes the magic works, sometimes it doesn’t.”
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jun 9, 2016 | Public Policy | 1 |
The pharmaceutical industry, in spite of their immense resources, may not be the best candidate to come up with a solution.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | May 9, 2016 | Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
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.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Nov 12, 2015 | Public Health | 0 |
It takes thirty seconds to write a prescription… that fits very well into a scheduled 15 minute office visit.
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