pain patients

If you don’t know Laurie Engel’s harrowing story, you should read her heart-wrenching interview with Dr.

In a March 22 opinion co

Ask any chronic pain patient about gabapentin (Neurontin) as a replacement for opioids and you'll probably get one of two reactions: Laughter or tears.

Even those of us who are fully aware of the misery that our appalling system of drug regulation has heaped upon pain sufferers will find Maia Szalavitz's 

Dear Pain Patients,

I've written more than 75 articles about the travesty that is now our drug "policy." Many of them can be found on the ACS

For people in pain, the following history is familiar.  After a year of political maneuvering and under-the-table influence peddling, the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) at CDC issued a “guideline” in March 2016, for

      Here are five things we really don't need: