Tag: Pain

Ilove this time of year perhaps more than any other. And I also hate it more than I can describe. What an odd and uncomfortable combination of feelings this time span brings to my heart. Often the things we love about this season are the very things that bring us stress and feelings of dread. And...

Buprenorphine is FDA approved for the treatment of acute and chronic pain as well as for the treatment of opioid use disorder. Buprenorphine is a semi-synthetic opioid. Buprenorphine is a partial opioid agonist at the mu-opioid receptor. The mu-opioid receptor is directly involved in pain c...

WHY DO WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT ALTERNATIVES FOR PAIN THERAPY? Obviously, there is an opioid crisis in the country, and I would say really in the last 10 years, opioids have been overused for chronic pain. We need alternatives, and there are, in fact, many alternatives. In my practice, I seldom have...

I was eight years old the first time I swallowed a Percoset. I lost count of how many times I was handed them… or Oxy… or Vicodin… before I even reached ten. They made me itchy but there was something about that itch. I liked it. A prepubescent pillhead. That’s a more a...

The radiologist report was of a mildly comminuted spiral fracture of the fibula (the non-weight bearing bone of the lower leg) and a simple fracture of the malleolus of the tibia at the syndesmosis. Basically, both bones of my lower leg were broken at the level of the ankle. I was provided a short &...

Netflix’s latest addition to the growing body of screen drama about the opioid crisis, Pain Hustlers, comes with promising credentials. Director David Yates helmed the highly regarded BBC political series State of Play (2003), though most of his film work has been in the Ha...

The herbal substance kratom, derived from the leaves of a Southeast Asian tree, is used by nearly 2 million people in the United States annually. It can be easily purchased at gas stations and convenience stores, smoke shops and online, and is marketed as an “herbal supplem...

I quit drinking alcohol a few months before my father died of alcoholic liver disease seven and a half years ago. In the few years before his death, I had watched him become more disabled from physical and emotional pain. I also suffered in similar ways as my father. It’s no secret that many e...