Pain and Chemical Dependency

by Steven Passik and Howard Smith

Book Overview

Both pain and addiction are tremendous public health problems. Practitioners of every stripe say that they learned precious little about pain or addiction in their training and readily admit that instruction on the interface of pain and addiction is nonexistent. The recent problem of prescription drug abuse has only served to highlight the fact that these two worlds need unificationthose who treat pain must be informed about the risks of controlled...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195300556
• ISBN13: 9780195300550
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Academic
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.7" x 11.1"