A Better Way to Predict Aberrant Drug Behavior in Pain Patients

Though opioid pain medications are effective for treating chronic pain, many physicians are reluctant to prescribe them fearing potential for addiction and abuse. Harvard researchers may have an answer to this problem with a new screening tool, published in The Journal of Pain, to predict which pain patients are most likely to exhibit aberrant medication-related behavior.

A Better Way to Predict Aberrant Drug Behavior in Pain Patients

So does this mean if you have an addictive personality and have chronic pain, you won't receive pain meds?? I have a really good reason for this question...

That's not what I'm getting out of it. There are several factors involved...

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They probed for problems with mood, temperament, feelings of impatience and frustration. Several items were related to attitudes about pain medication.

I see, I was in a mood there the fist time I read it, that one doctor did a number on my physic and my outlook for a while, but I am getting better now. Thanks Mike

Good to hear you're doing better friend. Moods play a big part of the whole picture ;)