My wife Ellen and I had a commitment to be in Palm Springs for an AA meeting on May 11th where a walking miricale friend of ours celebrated one year of being clean and sober and working an effective pain management program.  I’m mentioning this here on my Addiction-Free Pain Management® Blog because this gentleman is living with chronic pain and is doing it in an addiction-free way.  He also has Hepatitus C and has undergone Interferon treatment this past year and despite all of his challenges he remains positive and a great role-modle for others.

I love visiting this area as we lived here for the past two and a half years before moving home to Sacramento.  It was great seeing all of our friends and enjoying healing in the desert.  We leave tomorrow for Sierra Tucson for the next step on their Addiction-Free Pain Management® Center of Excellence designation process.  I plan to tell them about our friend in Palm Springs and share  his story with their current pain patients.  If everyone living with chronic pain and coexisting problems were half as proactive and positive as our friend their pain management process would be so much better and the outcomes awesome.
 
If you want to learn more about chronic pain management please check out our website at www.addiction-free.com. and go to our Ariticles page to download free information as well as checking out our Publications page to learn about my Addiction-Free Pain Management® books—especially my latest book Managing Pain and Coexisting Disorders.