When he accidentally crushed his fingers while operating a tractor, Christopher Shanahan, MD, MPH, faced issues patients often feel after surgery: pain, anxiety, and insomnia. The difference was that, as a pain researcher, he had the information, knowledge, and...
For primary care providers, this is a challenging time to be managing patients with chronic pain and substance use disorders. Fraught with stigma and gray area on the best of days, these conditions have become even more charged in the context of the ongoing opioid...
Back in 2003, soon after buprenorphine was approved by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of opioid use disorder, primary care physician Laura Kehoe, MD, was among the first in her clinic to begin writing prescriptions. She felt passionately that all...
