This past week we were in Houston Texas for a 20 Hour Addiction-Free Pain Management® (APM) Certification Training.  The training was one of four sponsored by the Institute of Chemical Dependency Studies (ICDS) and the Gorski-CEANPS® Corporation and this event was held at the Prevention and Recovery Center (PaRC) Memorial Hermann Hospital.

We had a multidisciplinary audience in attendance who were able to network and learn from each other as well as the APM™ training presentation.  The participants shared that people in chronic pain and coexisting addictive disorders is on the rise in their area and were grateful to learn some new and valuable tools to help better serve this population.

We have two more APM™ Trainings scheduled in November—one in Tampa Florida and the final one this year in Dallas Texas.  It’s not to late for people to sign up and in fact by mentioning this November 2, 2008 Blog I will make sure you get a discount from the $395 fee to only $325.  To get this discount you must call Anne at ICDS at 866-523-2669 and ask her for the discount.

To learn more about multidisciplinary treatment for chronic pain and coexisting disorders including addiction please check out my article The Need for Multidisciplinary Chronic Pain Management that you can download for free on our Ariticles page.

You can learn more about the Addiction-Free Pain Management® System at our website www.addiction-free.com. If you are working with people in chronic pain and want to learn how to develop a plan for managing their pain and coexisting psychological disorders including addiction effectively please go to our Publications page and check out my book the Managing Pain and Coexisting Disorders: Using the Addiction-Free Pain Management® System. To purchase this book please Click Here.

We have a full training schedule this month and the first week in December and some new postings for 2009 for upcoming trainings that you can check out on our Calendar page.

To listen to a recent radio interview I did conducted by Mary Woods for her program One Hour at a Time please Click Here to go to this interview.

To read the latest issue of Chronic Pain Solutions Newsletter please click here. If you want to sign up for the newsletter, please click here and input your name and email address. You will then recieve an autoresponse email that you need to reply to in order to finalize enrollment.