Purvez, Akhtar creator author. text bibliography Print books. mdu 2018 monographic eng

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199 pages ; 24 cm Medications that heal, and kill -- The opioid epidemic that is killing us -- On addiction management -- A mystery and a prize -- Complex nature of chronic pain -- Culture of pain -- The stigma of pain -- Chronic pain and depression -- Obesity and chronic pain -- Finding the right specialist -- Searching for the cause of pain -- Fibromyalgia gets real -- Other pain syndromes -- Getting moving : exercise and physical therapy -- Interventional pain management -- Alternative management options -- Marijuana : the mystery drug -- Pain in the court room -- Co-existing with pain -- Toward a painless future. Akhtar Purvez, MD ; foreword by John Rowlingson, MD Includes bibliographical references and index. Pain Management methods Chronic Pain drug therapy Chronic Pain complications Analgesics, Opioid adverse effects Opioid-Related Disorders prevention & control Behavior, Addictive prevention & control RB127 .P887 2018 Purvez, Akhtar, author. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018] (DLC) 2018012528 9781538109236 (cloth : alk. paper) 2018012053 DNLM/DLC 180312 20190516120348.0 20403919