Life After Opioids: How Pain Can Improve Without Pills (Beth Darnall, PhD)

Like Mind, Like Body

Curable Inc.

Health & Fitness, Medicine

4.7 • 768 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2018

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

After fighting her own battle with chronic pain at a young age, Dr. Beth Darnall is on a mission to provide people in pain with the answers and access she wishes she had all those years ago. These answers, she believes, don’t lie in pills, but in the human brain. Dr. Darnall is currently leading a $9M research award to find effective strategies for tapering off opioids and to validate the psychological interventions she believes can help many of those who suffer. Join us as she offers advice for pain sufferers, providers, and payers on how to move forward from the opioid epidemic, and reduce pain safely.

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0:00.0	If our attention and our thoughts are focused on pain and how awful it is,
0:07.0	what happens very clearly and physiologically is that we light up the same regions of the brain
0:16.0	that are involved in the processing of pain itself.
0:20.0	And so we are literally growing pain in our brain.
0:24.6	Nobody wants more pain, but if we don't understand
0:28.6	how these pieces fit together,
0:30.6	and if we're not using the right skills,
0:32.6	we are unwittingly increasing our pain.
0:49.6	This is like mind, like body.
0:56.3	A podcast about the surprising ways our thoughts and feelings can shape our physical health.
1:05.0	This podcast is brought to you by Curable, an app that gives you safe, effective tools to understand and heal chronic pain.
1:13.7	You can download Curable in the Apple App Store, on Google Play, or learn more at our website, curablehealth.com.
1:21.2	I'm your host, Laura Sago, and I am thrilled to be back in the studio today, recording our second season of the show, which kicks off right now with this episode.
1:26.0	Big thank you to everyone who has been tuning in over the past
1:30.4	15 episodes or so for our first season. And an extra big thank you to anyone who has written in
1:37.7	to share their own experience about how they've actually taken some of the ideas from these
1:43.6	interviews and incorporated them into
1:46.1	their daily lives. I'd love to hear more about what you are doing to actually take this
1:52.5	information and apply it. So we have a brand new email address and now you can send me your
1:59.6	burning questions, your thoughts, any requests for the
2:03.1	upcoming season. I also love hearing about personal recovery stories. So shoot me an email at
2:09.5	podcast at curablehealth.com. And you never know. You might just get your burning questions
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