I’m excited about the great reception of my latest publication — Addiction-Free Pain Management (APM) Module Four: A Guide for Managing Pain Medication in Recovery. I am often asked to recommend what people should do if they are in recovery and need to be on appropriate pain medication. That is why I developed this module along with the assistance of my coauthor Sheila Thares.

The exercises in the fourth APM™ Module are adapted from the Second Edition of my Addiction-Free Pain Management® Recovery Guide, and the original pamphlet—Guide for Managing Pain Medication in Recovery—also co-authored with Sheila Thares, as well as selected sections from my new book Freedom From Suffering: Seven Strategic Steps to Effective Pain Management (now in clinical trials) and my personal research and development of the APM™ System over the past thirteen years.

The information and exercises in this module are some of the most requested information from people who take my pain trainings. These exercises have evolved as a result of extensive field-testing by me and other clinicians who generously gave me their feedback about what worked, what didn’t work, and what adaptations they thought would be helpful.

In APM™ Module Four: A Guide for Managing Pain Medication in Recovery you will have an opportunity to explore how you can use pain medication using a recovery oriented approach. First you will look at some misunderstood terms, then you will be asked to list the benefits and disadvantages of using pain medication. Next you’ll write your pain history story and then be shown how to develop your own effective pain medication management plan. The final step is to review a Recovery/Relapse Indicator Checklist and complete a final call to action.

For a brief overview of some of the information in this module please check out my article Managing Pain Medication in Recovery that you can download for free on our Ariticles page. To purchase APM™ Module Four please Click Here.

For an addition resource regarding medication management please go to our Publications page and check out my Addiction-Free Pain Management® Module Two: Examining Your Potential Medication Management Problems. To purchase this module please Click Here.   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 or are living with chronic pain and have any resistance or denial and want to learn how to develop a plan for helping to identify and manage denial please go to our Publications page and check out my book the Denial Management Counseling for Effective Pain Management Workbook. To purchase this book please Click Here.

If you would like to be skill trained in a treatment model that teaches how to implement a multidisciplinary chronic pain management treatment plan including coping with denial we have an Addiction-Free Pain Management® 20 Hour Certification Training scheduled this Spring at Valley Forge Medical Center and Hospital in Noristown PA on June 10-12, 2009. It’s not to late for people to sign up and in fact by mentioning this Blog I will make sure you get a $20 discount for this training. To get this discount you must call my partner Ellen at (916) 575-9961 and ask her for the discount. Also, for this and other upcoming trainings you can check out our Calendar page.

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