Pain Management Articles

Articles, Memos and Commentaries

Recent Articles:

Human Chorionic Gonadotropin in Pain Management (, 111KB)

Howard Hughes and Pseudoaddiction (, 572KB)

A 10 and 20 Year Follow-Up of Severe, Chronic Pain Patients Treated with Daily Opioids (, 90KB)

Appropriate Opioid Dosing for Activities of Daily Living (, 211KB)

The Actiq® and Fentora® Access Problem (, 182KB)

Brain Atrophy with Chronic Pain (, 138KB)

Past Articles:

• Eye Screening and Intractable Pain Management, June, 2008.
  
• Viewpoint (Issues Surrounding Methadone Prescribing), April,2007.
  
• Editor's Memo (Neurogenesis, the Long-Term Goal for the Pain Patient), Nov/Dec, 2006.
  
• Identification and Management of Cardiac-Adrenal-Pain Syndrome, Sept, 2006.
  
• Editor's Memo (Documenting Pain with Cortisol and Pregnenolone Levels), Sept,2006.
  
• Editor's Memo (Individualizing Treatment Plans), July/Aug, 2006.
  
• Editor's Memo (Intrathecal Administration), May/June, 2006.
  
• Editor's Memo (Opioid Dosage Affected by P450 Enzymes, Malabsorption), April, 2006.
  
• Tennant Blood Study—Summary Report, March, 2006.
  
• Editor's Memo (Controlling Pain to Stabilize Concomitant Psychiatric and Physical Ailments), March, 2006.
  
• Tennant Blood Study — First Update, Jan/Feb, 2006.
  
• Editor's Memo (Some New, Practical Scientific Findings), Jan/Feb, 2006.
  
• Tennant Blood Study: Preliminary Report, Nov/Dec, 2005.
  
• Editor's Memo (Honesty with Patients Regarding Pain's Incurability), Nov/Dec, 2005.
  
• Editor's Memo (Cardiovascular Consequences of Pain), Sept/Oct, 2005.
  
• Editor's Memo (Generic Opioids - Listen to the Patient), July/Aug, 2005.
  
• Editor's Memo (Don't Listen to “One-Wayers” Who Preach Only One Treatment), May/June, 2005.
  
• Hormone Treatments in Chronic and Intractable Pain, April, 2005.
  
• Editor's Memo (Blood Level Monitoring), April, 2005.
  
• Editor's Memo, Diagnoses Is By Physical Examination, Not Pill Count, March, 2005.
  
• Editor's Memo (Use Care When Changing Pain Treatment), Nov/Dec, 2004.
  
• Editor's Memo (Sample Misstatements Made to Pain Patients), Sept/Oct, 2004.
  
• Editor's Memo (Self-administered Injectable Opioids), July/Aug, 2004.
  
• From Research To Practical Application - Review of Testosterone Gel Treatment Study, July/Aug, 2004.
  
• Pain, Sports, and Anabolic Steroids, May/June, 2004.
  
• Complications of Uncontrolled, Persistent Pain, Jan/Feb, 2004.
  
• Pain Treatment Does Not Interfere with Diagnosis or Treatment, Jan/Feb, 2004.
  
• Pain Complications and Treatment, Nov/Dec, 2003.
  
• Editor's Memo (Hypotestosteronemia in Pain Patients), Sept/Oct, 2003.
  
• Editor's Memo (Classification of Chronic Pain), Jul/Aug, 2003.
  
• Antidepressants in Pain Treatment, Jan/Feb, 2003.
  
• Intractable Pain, May/Jun, 2002.
  
• Normalization of Serum Cortisol Concentration With Opioid Treatment of Severe Chronic Pain, Jun, 2002.
• Use of Transmucosal Fentanyl in Non-Malignant, Chronic Pain, Sep, 2001.
• Evidence of a Clinical Neuroendocrine Syndrome in Severe Chronic Pain, Sep, 2001.
• Serum Cortisol Concentrations and Adrenal Reserve May Be Altered by Severe Chronic Pain, Sep, 2001.
Opioid Serum Concentrations in Patients with Chronic Pain, Dec, 2007