Show 1178: Do We Need a Revolution in Managing Pain? (Archive)

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Medicine, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Kids & Family

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Pain is a difficult topic. To begin with, the experience of pain is completely subjective. There are no independent objective measures that doctors can use to assess a patient’s pain. They have to take her word for it. Second, pain has a very significant emotional component that must be addressed along with any physical causes. […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Gradyton and I'm Terry Grady. Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.1	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at people's pharmacy.com.
0:15.0	For centuries, narcotics were the best way to manage severe pain.
0:19.0	Now, with a cloud over opioids, what else can patients do?
0:24.2	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grady.
0:27.8	Dr. Sean Mackey is a specialist in pain management at Stanford School of Medicine.
0:40.0	He says there are many strategies in addition to opioids that can help people in pain.
0:45.5	How can our health care system change from callousness to compassion for people who are suffering?
0:51.4	Because of the epidemic of opioid addiction and overdose deaths, doctors have become
0:56.4	reluctant to prescribe drugs like oxycodone.
0:59.7	What has that meant for people with severe chronic pain. Has the pendulum swung too far?
1:06.2	Coming up on the people's pharmacy, do we need a revolution in managing pain? pain.
1:17.0	In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, Many states have been lifting restrictions put in place last year to slow the spread of COVID-19. That's because COVID case reports had
1:25.8	been falling for a few months. That has changed. Over the last week, case reports are up in
1:31.8	more than half the country.
1:33.5	The rise is quite steep in some places, including Nevada, Arkansas, Utah, and Missouri.
1:39.8	Several counties in Texas also have high rates of new cases, along with counties in Virginia,
1:46.4	Idaho, and Georgia.
1:48.6	Another indicator is per capita hospitalizations.
1:51.7	They're up in Missouri, Nevada, Arkansas, Florida, and Wyoming.
1:56.0	California is also seeing a surge.
1:59.0	In Los Angeles County, experts have seen a rise among unvaccinated people attributed to the Delta variant.
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