Chronic: The Pain Game: Recent Episodes
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Chronic: The Pain Game is six-part podcast series focusing on the personal stories of chronic pain patients including the challenges and obstacles they face with obtaining adequate treatment, particularly opioids . The podcast features interviews with pain patients, patient advocates, healthcare professionals and a governing body, which highlight and support claims of existing problems and obstacles.
We discuss how DEA enforcement and the CDC Guideline has negatively impacted the practice of pain management and big Pharma.
An introduction to Chronic: The Pain Game podcast which provides an overview of the podcast.
We discuss the impact of the 2016 CDC Guideline on intractable pain patients and clinicians.
We discuss the DEA's role in the enforcement of prescription opioids and the effects it has had on prescribing clinicians.