Chronic pain can be difficult to manage. Your pain is real. You may also be at a high-risk of becoming addicted to your pain medications. Your need for relief is urgent. The typical treatment involves the use of pain killing medications. When undergoing pain management treatment you are forced to answer a series of difficult questions.

• What if the traditional medication management doesn’t work?
• What if you quickly develop tolerance to your pain medication and require progressively larger doses to gain relief from your pain?
• What do you do if you find yourself consistently abusing your pain medication by using more or taking it more often than prescribed?
• How can you distinguish when you legitimately need more pain medication over a longer period of time, from the possibility that you may have become addicted to your medication?
• How do you deal with feeling helpless and hopeless because you are in pain and/or addicted to your pain medications and can see no way out?

The Addiction-Free Pain Management® (APM) System provides a way to answer these and many more difficult questions that are routinely asked by people with chronic pain. The APM™ system is a treatment approach that also incorporates components of the GORSKI-CENAPS® developmental model of recovery.

The APM™ system integrates the most advanced pain management methods, developed at the nation’s leading pain clinics with the most effective treatment methods for addiction developed at the nation’s leading chemical dependency treatment programs. The result is a unique integration of treatment methods that combine proper medication management with nonpharmacological techniques. This can lead to pain relief, while lowering or eliminating your risk of addiction or relapse.

To read more about the importance of using a team approach for chronic pain management 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 undergoing chronic pain management and want to learn how to develop a plan for managing their chronic pain and coexisting psychological disorders including depression, addiction and other coexisting psychological disorders effectively please consider my book Managing Pain and Coexisting Disorders: Using the Addiction-Free Pain Management® System. To purchase this book please Click Here.

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