When Chronic Pain, Addiction and Mental Illness Intersect
When chronic pain, addiction and mental illness intersect
The challenge for care providers, as they respond to the national crisis and address the dilemma of people like Marthaler, is to more accurately apprehend the interplay of pain, opioids, mental health and addiction. … And both were able to withdraw …
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An NHS Foundation Trust v R (Child) & Ors [2013] EWHC 2340 (Fam)
(a) He suffers profound neurological problems and has not met any of his infant developmental milestones. As a result of brain impairment and muscular weakness, he has no gag reflex (a most basic function) and no deep reflexes in the major joints. He …
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I'll Just Be Blunt
I'd smoked a joint once before, and had felt nothing. My friends told … Withdrawal symptoms that resulted from ceasing to smoke marijuana certainly felt, to me, as if they were associated with an addictive substance, both physically and mentally …
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