Breakout Session—Overcoming the Inner Saboteur: Managing Resistance and Denial for More Effective Pain Management

Training Location: Greater Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, Ohio

Training Description: An important goal of this overview will be to focus on identification and effective intervention and treatment of prescription drug abuse for chronic pain patients. This will be accomplished in part by discussing how to identify the most common red flags of prescription drug abuse, and the denial patterns patients use to avoid recognizing and/or dealing with their prescription drug abuse/addiction, as well as becoming familiar with common pain management drugs of abuse.

Since chronic pain includes both physiological and psychological pain symptoms, the participants of this presentation will learn how to differentiate between the two types of symptoms; how effective implementation of a multidisciplinary and integrated pain management approach can increase positive treatment outcomes by addressing the synergistic effect of pain and chemical dependency issues; and what components are necessary to treat the synergistic symptoms of pain and addiction, which include medication management, emotional/ psychological management, and non-pharmacological pain management.

Sponsor: Addiction Studies Institute

For More Information or Registration Please Contact:

Garrision & Associates at 614-273-1400