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Jenna L. Butner MD; Curtis Bone MD; Caridad C. Ponce Martinez MD; Grace Kwon MD; Mark Beitel PhD; Lynn M. Madden PhD; Madeline H. Bono; Anthony Eller BS; & Declan T. Barry PhD
Substance Abuse Vol. 39, Iss. 2, 2018
“Initiatives to reduce providers’ perceived inability, reported discomfort, and lack of interest in managing chronic pain have centered on enhancing curricula at medical and professional schools. This approach has met with mixed success; it appears that training providers on a biomedical model of pain management emphasizing pathophysiology, pharmacotherapy, and surgical interventions does not automatically enhance perceived ability to manage chronic pain. Findings from this pilot study suggest that it is both feasible and acceptable to train front-line opioid agonist treatment drug counselors with an inexpensive, brief, onsite psychoeducational intervention for assessing and addressing chronic pain; on average attendees continued to perceive a beneficial effect on their clinical work with patients six months later. These findings underscore the importance of conducting further research on training providers, including those in opioid agonist treatment settings, on the biopsychosocial model of chronic pain, and targeting strategies that might enhance their clinical management of patients with chronic pain.”
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