1. Pain of all types is undertreated in our society. The pediatric and geriatric populations are
especially at risk for undertreatment. Health professionals’ fears regarding iatrogenic …

points 1. Addiction can occur with the repeated exposure of a biogenetically predisposed
person to an addictive substance or behaviour. 2. In the patient with pain on opioid therapy, …

Objectives Alcohol dependence is a prevalent psychiatric disorder affecting approximately
12% of the adult population at some point in their lifetime. Psychosocial treatments are …

Background: Non-image guided injection treatments (“nerve blocks”) are commonly provided
in community pain clinics in Ontario for chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP) but remain …

There is limited print space in medical journals owing to declines in pharmaceutical advertising,
which has been a large source of revenue for medical journals. Our response to this has …

Pain occurs in most groups of patients with psychiatric illness in the same proportions as in
the general population. Patients with schizophrenia complain less of pain than others, …

“Specifically, the Guideline includes a recommendation to taper or reduce dosage only
when patient harm outweighs patient benefit of opioid therapy. The Guideline is not a rule, …

 As more people lose their jobs or fear losing them, as more young people despair of any
meaningful future, as life becomes harder and social supports disappear, human pain …

Recent neurophysiologic studies support the presence of pain in the body in the absence of
identifiable physical abnormalites. 2-8 Abnormalities in pain processing have been …

physicians, nor did they follow up to of removing "pain" from their pa- Page 1 Anderson and
colleagues have taken much trouble to prove what most physicians know intuitively: if a …