Real Psychiatry

It turns out that Twitter is an inadequate forum for discussing the issue.  Twitter is an ideal format for discovering if a poste...

The inspiration for this post was a story I just read about the "victims" of the crackdown on opioids.  A number of chroni...

Drawing of Pain Matrix from reference 2 with permission. One of the main problems with the assessment and treatment of chronic pain ...

The American Medical Association came out two days ago and said that they were dropping the pain as the fifth vital sign movement be...

I took in a CME course on Medical Cannabis: Clinical Applications and Evidence for Health Professionals  on April 28, 2016 8 AM - 5 PM...

Driving home on a Friday night, as usual I am listening to public radio.  This time I happened to catch an interview with the late Johnny Ca...

I remember the first time I experienced any significant knee pain.  My wife and I had just purchased an old house and as part of the swea...

I am not talking about the spine as a metaphor, I am talking about the real spine.  I am also not going to discuss some alternate therap...

I thought I would wade in on this issue largely because I am not hearing a lot of rational discussion about the problem.  You might ask: ...