Pain Management & Complementary Medicine
Pain Management & Complementary Medicine
The Stanford Division of Pain Medicine is focused on translating groundbreaking research discoveries into effective therapies. Our faculty investigates the emotional and cognitive factors that influence pain, normal pain processing, pain disorders, and treatment options through the use of state-of-the art neuroimaging tools, neuropsychology, pharmacology, and complementary medicine.
Pain Management & Complementary Medicine
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Heroin discharges surpass opioid discharges
The findings of a new Stanford-led study suggest that illicit drugs are beginning to replace prescription opioids as the source of the national drug epidemic.
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Working through pain toward success in school
With the help of an advocacy program and integrated complex care team at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, Hari Suresh navigated an obstacle-strewn path to scholastic success.
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Darnall funded for pain management study
The Stanford pain psychologist will evaluate the effectiveness of behavioral training to help people with chronic pain reduce their use of opioids.
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Source of opioids’ side effects identified
Stanford researchers said they have identified the receptors to which opioids bind to produce tolerance to the drugs and increased sensitivity to pain. They also found that a commercially available drug limited those side effects in mice.
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Podcast: How physicians are fueling the opioid epidemic
In, "Drug Dealer, MD, How Doctors Were Duped, Patients Got Hooked, and Why It’s So Hard to Stop," Stanford addiction expert Anna Lembke explores the culprits behind the rise in the opioid epidemic sweeping the country.
Upcoming Courses
Conferences and Workshops
Online Courses
- E-Cigarettes: Harmful or Harm-Reducing
- Introduction to Food and Health
- Managing Atrial Fibrillation
- Musculoskeletal Medicine Primer for the non-Orthopedist
- Prescription Drug Misuse and Addiction: Compassionate Care for a Complex Problem
- Screening and Assessing Depression in Primary Care Settings: Clinical and Ethical Considerations
- SonoDoc: Case-based Learning in Bedside Ultrasound
- To Prescribe or Not To Prescribe? Antibiotics and Outpatient Infections
- Unconscious Bias
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