Side Effects
About This Show
Show Info: The podcast from Side Effects Public Media.
Most Recent Episode
The Best Medicine For Chronic Pain Is Not A Drug, Experts Say
Apr 4
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4 minutes
It took several months and a team of half a dozen doctors, nurses and therapists to help Kim Brown taper off the opioid painkillers she’d been on for two years. Brown had been taking the pills since an injury in 2010. It wasn’t until she met Dr. Dennis McManus, a neurologist who specializes in non-pharmacological approaches to pain management that she learned she had some control over her pain. “That’s when life changed,” she said.
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