Chronic Pain: It Is All in Your Head, AND it’s Real: The Reality of Emotions and How They Affect Our Experience of Pain In a previous post I shared five of the most surprising lessons I’ve learned about chronic pain from treating patients over...
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A review of what I’ve learned about chronic pain from my best teachers—my patients. Published on July 30, 2012 by Mel Pohl, M.D., FASAM in A Day Without Pain Throughout my career as a physician, I had always believed that pain was based in...
Read moreNew The Prescription Drug Epidemic: The Counselors Role – By Mel Pohl, MD, FASAM
According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), enough prescription painkillers were prescribed in 2010 to medicate every American adult around-the-clock for a month. Although most of these pills were prescribed for a medical purpose, many...
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