Dr. Cheatle reviews some medication and non-medication treatment options for addressing substance use disorder. The message to primary care: a multimodal approach works best, and treatment of the SUD without attention to management of the patient’s underlying pain is the likely route to relapse.
I think we’ve been so focused on this opioid crisis that we have forgotten that these are very brittle people who have significant psychiatric co-morbidities, including...
There's a robust body of literature on the comorbidity of depression, anxiety and chronic pain. Approximately 50 percent of patients who suffer from chronic nonmalignant pain...
Why is complex regional pain syndrome so challenging? I think part of the debate is what really constitutes CRPS, because it's really a difficult diagnosis. You can see flagrant cases of...
