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Buprenorphine – A Transitional Medication For...

Last February I reported an update from Join Together that I interpret as the Federal Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) planning...

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19 Sep, 2013

Chronic Pain Can Also be Mind-Altering

I was speaking with someone today that shared what his sponsor told him about pain management in recovery.  As most people...

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19 Sep, 2013

Are We Managing Pain But Fueling Addiction?

At many of my pain management trainings I ask my audiences three questions to keep in mind as we go through the taining. ...

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19 Sep, 2013

Part Two: PTSD and Chronic Pain Management

Relationship between chronic pain and PTSD While chronic pain and PTSD are conditions that may occur together, their...

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19 Sep, 2013

5 Tips for Non-Medication Chronic Pain Management

Below are five classifications of nonpharmacological (non-medication) ways that people have learned to implement in order to...

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19 Sep, 2013

Part One: Chronic Pain Management and PTSD

Coping with chronic pain is a difficult struggle that requires a lifestyle management approach focused on caring for both...

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19 Sep, 2013

Living with Chronic Pain can Lead to Sleep...

Over the years one problem common to most of my patients with chronic pain is they have problems sleeping.  For some it is...

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19 Sep, 2013

Managing Pain and Medication in Recovery

According to research published in Pain Physician Journal as recently as 2006, 90 percent of people in the US receiving...

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19 Sep, 2013

Chronic Pain Management–Anxiety Disorder...

An anxiety disorder and a co-occurring chronic pain condition can make a person’s health more difficult to treat. But a...

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19 Sep, 2013

The Addiction-Free Pain Management® Clinical...

The Addiction Free Pain Management® (APM) System provides a way to deal with the problem of chronic pain and co-existing...

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19 Sep, 2013

Waiting for Chronic Pain Management Help can be...

All over the planet people living with chronic pain are not receiving timely and appropriate treatment interventions for...

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19 Sep, 2013

Chronic Pain Management and Smoking Don’t Mix

You see it in the media all the time now—the “evils” of smoking. If you review research from credible sources e.g.,...

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19 Sep, 2013

Chronic Pain Management: You Have to do it...

Many people in any type of recovery process know that recovery is an inside job.  We also learn early in recovery that in...

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18 Sep, 2013

Addiction-Free Pain Management® (APM) Relapse...

The main reason APM™ coaching works is that you’re hiring someone with greater experience than you in pain management...

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18 Sep, 2013

Learn to Better Manage Thoughts, Feelings and...

When you experience a bad pain day your TFUARs (thinking, feelings, urges, actions, and reactions of others) often change....

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18 Sep, 2013

Chronic Pain Management and the Addiction-Pain...

In 1996 I conducted research to begin developing the first clinical skills training for Addiction Free Pain Management®. ...

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18 Sep, 2013

The Depression and Chronic Pain Connection

A depressed individual can be emotionally withdrawn, isolated, lethargic, self-critical and, sometimes, suicidal. If you...

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18 Sep, 2013

Is Prescription Drug Abuse/Addiction a Problem in...

There has been a tremendous amount of controversy about the use of narcotics (also referred to as opiates) for long-term...

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18 Sep, 2013

Chronic Pain Management and the Role of Suffering

I want to discuss something I had to resolve for myself early on in my own recovery because for a time I was suffering with...

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18 Sep, 2013

Is Marijuana an Appropriate Medication for...

In my work with patients or during trainings I conduct I often run into some controversial and challenging concerns.  One...

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18 Sep, 2013

The Chronic Pain and Anxiety Connection

Although in most cases, anxiety about pain is more likely in acute pain stage while depression prevails in the chronic pain...

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18 Sep, 2013

Neuroplasticity and the Chronic Pain Management...

A surprising consequence of neuroplasticity is that the brain activity associated with a given function can move to a...

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18 Sep, 2013

Changing Your Perception of Pain for More...

The Three Parts of Pain Biological: A signal that something is going wrong with your body Psychological: The meaning...

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18 Sep, 2013

Understanding Your Pain to Obtain More Effective...

Many people living with chronic pain really don’t understand as much about their pain as they need to. That is why one of...

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18 Sep, 2013

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