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		<title>What Makes Effective Chronic Pain Management?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2009 01:34:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m often asked when someone has chronic pain and addiction, which condition do we treat first?  Many people think it’s one or the other.  But it’s really not that simple.  Patients who need in-patient treatment and have chronic pain and coexisting addiction, need to be treated for both conditions at the same time, in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five Tips for Managing Stress for Improving Chronic Pain Management</title>
		<link>http://www.addiction-free.com/blog/five-tips-for-managing-stress-for-improving-chronic-pain-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know how important it is to manage stress.  But if you’re living with chronic pain management like I am, it’s crucial because increased stress leads to increased pain.  In this blog I want to give you a brief overview of five simple steps for managing stress associated with chronic pain management: Understanding Stress; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Part Two: Differentiating Addiction versus Pseudoaddiction for Effective Chronic Pain Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:16:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pseudoaddiction is a term which has been used to describe patient behaviors that may occur when pain is under-treated.  Patients with unrelieved pain may become focused on obtaining medications, clock watch, or otherwise seem to be inappropriately drug seeking.  Even such behaviors as illicit drug use and deception can occur in the patient&#8217;s efforts to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Part One: Differentiating Addiction versus Pseudoaddiction for Effective Chronic Pain Management</title>
		<link>http://www.addiction-free.com/blog/part-one-differentiating-addiction-versus-pseudoaddiction-for-effective-chronic-pain-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:50:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is part one of two on understanding Pseudoaddiction versus Addiction. There are many questions to be addressed when treating someone who has chronic pain and coexisting substance use disorders.  I start most of my Addiction-Free Pain Management® trainings with three questions:
1.  Are we managing pain but fueling the addiction?
2.  Are we treating the addiction [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The High Cost Of Chronic Pain Management</title>
		<link>http://www.addiction-free.com/blog/the-high-cost-of-chronic-pain-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People in chronic pain pay a high price.  That price tag involves both money and human misery.  Up until very recently people in this country had no idea how expensive and wide spread the “silent” epidemic of chronic pain really was.  In 1999 I joined the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hitting the Wall Called Depression in Chronic Pain Management</title>
		<link>http://www.addiction-free.com/blog/hitting-the-wall-called-depression-in-chronic-pain-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:34:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people undergoing chronic pain management frequently become depressed due to living with under-treated or mistreated pain symptoms. This process starts when thinking and emotions become problematic. By problematic I mean that the thinking process becomes irrational or dysfunctional and they start to mismanage their feelings; they often have urges to indulge in self-defeating impulsive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chronic Pain Management—Coping With Migraine Headaches</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I conducted my Managing Pain and Coexisting Disorders Workshop at the University of Utah’s School on Alcoholism and Other Drug Dependencies. After the workshop several participants wanted to spend time with me to talk about some problems they were experiencing from living with frequent migraine headaches.
One of the participants has been on high doses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Relapse Prevention for American Indians In Utah</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:47:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I was honored to present to the American Indian Section at the University of Utah’s School on Alcoholism and Other Drug Dependencies. This tract is planned for individuals who are involved with American Indians and alcoholic rehabilitation programs and those who are interested in expanding their knowledge in substance abuse, group counseling, program evaluation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Addiction-Free Pain Management® Goes to the University of Utah’s Annual School on Alcoholism and Other Drug Dependencies</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m spending this coming week in Salt Lake City presenting two Addiction-Free Pain Management® topics and helping Terence T. Gorski teacch the Relapse Prevention Counseling Track at the University of Utah’s School on Alcoholism and Other Drug Dependencies annual week long school. Last year I presented the Relapse Prevention Counseling Track myself and I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Managing Resistance and Denial for Effective Chronic Pain Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 04:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I want to explain what I mean when I talk about denial and how it can sabotage chronic pain management. I believe that denial is a defense mechanism that helps us face painful reality when it is overwhelming or distressing. It’s an automatic and unconscious reaction that gets turned on when we have to think [...]]]></description>
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