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Medical, and recreational, marijuana serve as sources of great confusion to patients and clinicians alike. A culture of "neuromysticism" around medical marijuana has arisen, leaving patients and clinicians alike confused regarding what constitutes "medical" marijuana. A part of this confusion is...
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With our current climate of opioid overuse and increasing opioid related deaths, alternatives to pure mu opioids are necessary. Buprenorphine, an important weapon in the arsenal for management of substance use disorder, is now rising in popularity as an opioid option for chronic pain. Evidence has...
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Christopher G. Gharibo, MD
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Multiple clinical treatment guidelines have been published regarding headache and pain management. However, many have questioned the benefit of such clinical guidelines for the treatment of individual patients. This course will review key published treatment guidelines for migraine, interventional...
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Gerald Sacks, MD
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Sponsored by Salix Pharmaceuticals
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Americans are obsessed with all that is technical, yet technologically-focused approaches to chronic pain management are not necessarily the most effective approaches. Despite their perceived promise, unimodal approaches such as medications, surgery, spinal cord stimulation, intrathecal opioid pumps...