Living with Pain: My Spinal Cord Stimulator
It was the summer of 2005 in Los Angeles, six years after extensive spinal surgery to correct the aftermath of my broken spine. My pain…
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Living with Pain: Forming a New Community
Last May the American Pain Foundation (APF) closed its doors, thus shuttering Pain Aid, a vibrant online community of people living with pain. This was…
Living with Pain: Rescheduling Vicodin Will Hurt Pain Patients
People living with pain sustained another jolt last week at the hands of a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel. The panel voted 19 to…
Living with Pain: New York City’s Crackdown on Painkillers
Recently New York City announced troubling new measures to fight the city’s growing opioid addiction and associated violence. There is no doubt that opioid addiction…
Living with Pain: Chronic Pain and Gun Violence
In this column I want to explore an aspect of gun violence and gunshot wounds rarely discussed publicly: chronic pain. In the interest of transparency,…
Living with Pain: PTSD and Chronic Pain
Over the last decade we have seen and heard about the horrors of people living with unimaginable pain and disability. We’ve watched as research after…
Living with Pain: How the War on Patients Harms Families
To understand the war on pain patients, it is necessary to look beyond the current crisis effecting patients’ access to opioid medicines. Most of those…
Living with Pain: Wrong People Being Targeted in the War on Drugs
Readers who’ve followed this column know that I primarily focus on the collateral damage the war on drugs inflicts on physicians and pain patients. I…