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People who experience acute or chronic pain are at increased risk for thinking about killing someone else and then killing themselves, according to a new study.
ISSUE: JULY, 2010 Pain Linked to Increased Risk for Thoughts Of Homicide Followed by Suicide read more | |
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Canadian Study Further Confirms High Rates of Psychiatric Disorders in Chronic Pain
ISSUE: JULY, 2010 A new Canadian study has found a high incidence of psychiatric disorders accompanying chronic pain conditions, corroborating previous research conducted in the United States. read more | |
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Support Grows for Link Between Childhood Abuse, Chronic Pain Conditions
ISSUE: MAY, 2010 Emotional abuse and neglect, and physical abuse during childhood may be risk factors for chronic headache and other chronic pain conditions in adulthood, according to researchers from the American Headache Society’s Women’s Issues Section Research Consortium read more | |
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Physicians Coping With Addiction Face Long Road Back
ISSUE: NOVEMBER, 2009 Physician addiction has become a serious problem that needs to be better addressed, according to the chief medical officer of Hazelden, the famed substance abuse treatment center in Minnesota. read more | |
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Death of Club DJ Highlights Difficulty of Treating Pain in Recovering Addicts
ISSUE: OCTOBER, 2009 By all indications, New York club icon DJ AM had a firm grip on his drug problem. A self-professed recovering crack cocaine addict, the 36-year-old celebrity DJ (whose real name was Adam Goldstein) said he had been clean for more than a decade, and was even starring in a new reality series in which he tried to intervene in the lives of other drug addicts. But before the program had a chance to air, DJ AM was dead, apparently of a drug overdose in part involving prescription pain medications. read more | |
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Pain, Depression Reduced Through Antidepressant–Behavioral Intervention Combination
ISSUE: SEPTEMBER, 2009 Treatment with individually tailored antidepressant therapy and a patient-managed pain intervention program resulted in “substantial” reductions in depression and “moderate” decreases in musculoskeletal pain in primary care patients with the two comorbid conditions, a new study showed. read more | |
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Pain Outcomes Improved Following Psychiatric Assessment
ISSUE: JULY, 2009 New York—A new retrospective study of spinal cord stimulation (SCS) has shown that the introduction of a psychiatric assessment to better assess candidacy for the procedure resulted in significantly improved treatment outcomes. read more | |
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Despite Lackluster Data, Experts Cite Benefits Of Behavioral Therapy for Pain
ISSUE: JULY, 2009 Psychological therapies show some benefit in improving the pain and disability associated with chronic pain, according to a new Cochrane review. However, the authors, who are specialists in these therapies, added a caveat—evidence supporting cognitive behavior therapy ( and behavioral therapy for pain is only “weak” and “minimal.” read more |
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