An Important Chronic Pain Management Question

What is Effective Chronic Pain Management?

Today, chronic pain is one of the most critical healthcare issues in the world. In the United States alone, more than 100 million people suffer with some type of chronic pain—affecting as many as 1 in 5 Americans. Chronic pain takes its toll on personal lives, healthcare resources, and the economy—more than $100 billion in medical expenses and more than $70 billion each year in lost productivity, unsafe working conditions and increased absenteeism in this country alone.

There has been a lot of controversy not only in the United States but also internationally on what is the best approach for long-term chronic pain management. Unfortunately, due to cost constraints, HMOs and Managed Care, many people undergoing chronic pain management treatment are not getting their needs adequately addressed.

Living with chronic pain is very difficult. If a person also has a coexisting addiction it becomes even harder. Many people who have chronic pain and addiction become very depressed and start feeling hopeless. They have often lost their self-esteem and eventually lose the support of their significant others. Healthcare providers often become confused and frustrated when none of their treatment interventions seem to work.

The Addiction-Free Pain Management® (APM) System was developed to address the specific needs of this under-served population. Historically, addictive disorders and pain disorders have been treated as separate issues. However, to effectively implement an APM approach, both the addictive disorder and the pain disorder must be adequately addressed at the same time. In addition, the physical, psychological, and social implications of these disorders must also be dealt with.

To learn more about effective chronic pain management—especially when other coexisting disorders are present—please check out my article The Need for Multidisciplinary Chronic Pain Management, that you can download for free on our Ariticles page.

You can learn more about the Addiction-Free Pain Management® System at our website http://www.addiction-free.com/ If you are working with people undergoing chronic pain management and want to learn how to develop a plan for managing their chronic pain and coexisting psychological disorders including depression, addiction and other coexisting psychological disorders effectively please consider my book Managing Pain and Coexisting Disorders: Using the Addiction-Free Pain Management® System. To purchase this book please Click Here.

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