One for PTSD, One for Pain
Many of the chronic pain patients I’ve run into suffer from both depression and anxiety, much of it related to their experience of pain.
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Update on Pot & Pain
Non-drug remedies do tend to require considerably more effort than simply firing up a vape pen or chewing an edible. Medications are popular precisely because they take effect so quickly and are less likely to interrupt our busy lifestyle.
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Placebo, Pot, and Pain
…how cannabis is covered in the media reinforces and can strengthen the user’s faith in the value of cannabis – well beyond the science, as the saying goes.
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Another Approach to Pain
Somehow, experts believe, the brain of the chronic pain patient has “learned” to interpret certain stimuli as a threat, accompanied by danger messages in the form of pain.
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Opioid Tapering
Of more than 9000 Veterans Administration patients, only one-quarter rated their pain control with opioids as excellent or very good.
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Painkillers, from Two Sides
Ethics never comes up. The job is to push product, and once sold, “we wash our hands of the whole thing.”
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Life Without Opioids
We shouldn’t ignore the emotional factors involved in chronic pain– such as anxiety and depression.
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Pain: Sensation or Emotion?
…optimally, the goal isn’t just to get different specialists to work together, it’s to educate all practitioners to address the patient with awareness of both perspectives.
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The Pain Patients’ Dilemma
In the past, we’ve flung opioids at the problem, and haven’t developed alternatives.
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Why No Opioid Taper?
Not everybody wants to remain dependent on pain medication. But at present, we offer few if any alternatives to doing it on your own.
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Pain Psychology
Perhaps more important, the patient could begin to resume a normal life.
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The Study of Pain
The goal is to eventually develop an objective scale by which pain can be measured not by self-report, but by neuroimaging.
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