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Originally Posted by spine95
Most of the neuropsychiatrists were doing their best to talk their pain patients, who had been referred by their pain docs, into discontinuing their sched. IIs as they felt the sched. IIs caused rebound pain. They had far more training in addiction than chronic pain and felt that most of us had been turned into addicts. They were on a mission!!!!
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That again sounds to me like, as I mentioned, some article in their journal(s) purporting such a contention AND/OR equation of dependence with addiction (perhaps a reactionary/backlash response to their clinical differentiation or vice versa) which came about
around the same time as the publication of
Definitions Related to the Use of Opioids for the Treatment of Pain: Consensus Statement of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, the American Pain Society, and the American Society of Addiction Medicine (Adoption Date: April 1, 1997; rev. February 1, 2001)
Unfortunately this confusion/equation persists (and continues to be disseminated) today among medical professionals (who above
all SHOULD know better by now), bureaucrats & politicians,
yellow journalists, and laypersons alike.
Doc
04-13-2012, 08:44 AM
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