Comments on Pain-Topics.org News/Research UPDATES: Mayday Panel Report Urges Revolution in Pain Care

We believe, the comment above is very important. S...

2009-12-10T12:17:58.673-06:00

We believe, the comment above is very important. Successful chronic pain management is almost always multimodal, with opioid analgesics as but one of many components of effective treatment. At the same time, however, it is vital that regulatory pressures and medical prejudices do not restrict availability of those medications as an option. Along with that, patients certainly need more and better

There seems to be an underlying assumption by many...

2009-12-10T11:45:38.516-06:00

There seems to be an underlying assumption by many that "undertreatment of pain" equates to a provider's lack of willingness to prescribe narcotic analgesics on a chronic basis. Over the past 7 years my job has entailed review of hundreds of chronic pain patients records from multiple MDs. What I see is a huge number of patients who are unwilling to comply with or even try any

While it's nice to see the pain organizations ...

2009-11-09T16:08:05.787-06:00

While it's nice to see the pain organizations call for a revolution in pain care and talk at length about what "should" be going on, what is noticably absent here is any committment to get to the bottom of why doctors do not treat pain.
As usual, it appears, these pain groups are merely using the crisis which has been ongoing and severe for years as the pretext for yet another