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 Recalled without comment... November 25, 2003 The Delicate Balance Of Pain and Addiction By BARRY MEIER Over the past two decades, conflicting medical ideas have surfaced about narcotic painkillers, the drugs that Rush Limbaugh blames for his addiction while being treated for chronic back pain. And both of them, not surprisingly, have centered on the bottom-line question: just how great a

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Brennan describes the Stoic conception of pain as one of the four basic kinds of emotion: Pain is an opinion that some present thing is a bad of such a sort that we should be downcast about it. [Cambridge Companion to the Stoics, p.270]

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One hypothesis on why Medieval and other early writers ignore pain to a large degree: In these centuries...prior to the development of medicine and its pain-killing or controlling drugs, and when very severe penalties, imposed by Church and State alike, were commonly acceptable, the problems of physical evil do not appear to have been taken as seriously as they are by contemporary thinkers. [

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From the IASP, a helpful summary of some of the terms which describe altered thresholds, responses, and perceptions of pain: Allodynia: lowered threshold: stimulus and response mode differ Hyperalgesia: increased response: stimulus and response mode are the same Hyperpathia: raised threshold: stimulus and response mode may be the increased response: same or different Hypoalgesia: raised

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Following up on Hyperbole and a Half's critique of the Wong-Baker Scale, xkcd weighs in on anchors of common assessment scales. His mouseover caption presses the point: "If it were a two or above, I couldn't answer because it would mean a pause in the screaming."This reminds me of a conversation with a friend about the pragmatics of rating the pain which brought you to the doctor's office. Our

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Blackwell Synergy - Pain Medicine, OnlineEarly Articles (Article Abstract) Jo Nijs PhD, Karen Van de Putte MSc, Fred Louckx PhD, Steven Truijen PhD, Kenny De Meirleir PhD (2007) Exercise Performance and Chronic Pain in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: The Role of Pain Catastrophizing doi:10.1111/j.1526-4637.2007.00368.x Exercise Performance and Chronic Pain in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: The Role of

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Here's an NPR story on the discovery of nitrous oxide. The transcript and podcast are here: No, Thank You; We Like Pain: The Almost Discovery Of Anesthesia : NPRToday's Quantified Self practitioners take note, you've got nothing on young Humphry Davy.

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ScienceDirect - Pain : Don’t ask, Don’t tell? Revealing placebo responses to research participants and patients An NIMH perspective on the use of placebosBiological Psychiatry Biological Psychiatry, Volume 47, Issue 8, 15 April 2000, Pages 689-691Steven E. Hyman and David Shore The placebo in modern medicine Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Volume 43, Issue 2, Part 1, 1996, Pages 76-79 Stephen E

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From Time Magazine Ouch! Monday, Jan. 01, 1945 People like Dickens' Mrs. Gummidge, who claim they "feel more than other people do," will have a chance to prove it in the future. For Cleveland's Dr. Lorand Julius Bela Gluzek has rigged up an efficient little machine called a dolorimeter, which measures pain in grams. It would have made the Marquis de Sade very happy. Just put the victim's leg

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December 16, 2001 Pain, the Disease By MELANIE THERNSTROM A modern chronicler of hell might look to the lives of chronic-pain patients for inspiration. Theirs is a special suffering, a separate chamber, the dimensions of which materialize at the New England Medical Center pain clinic in downtown Boston. Inside the cement tower, all sights and sounds of the neighborhood -- the swans in the

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Neque porro quisquam est qui dolorem ipsum quia dolor sit amet, consectetur, adipisci velit . . . ("There is no one who loves pain itself, who seeks after it and wants to have it, simply because it is pain . . ."). Pain mingles with pleasure. Source: (Latin) Pain of mind is worse than pain of body. Source: (Latin) Pain past is pleasure. Source: (Latin) http://www.worldofquotes.com/proverb/Latin/

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Blackwell Synergy - Pain Medicine, Volume 7 Issue 4 Page 320-329, July/August 2006 (Article Abstract) Toward Evidence-Based Prescribing at End of Life: A Comparative Analysis of Sustained-Release Morphine, Oxycodone, and Transdermal Fentanyl, with Pain, Constipation, and Caregiver Interaction Outcomes in Hospice Patients Poster presented during the 20th annual meeting of the American Academy

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Title:Religiosity/spirituality and pain in patients with sickle cell disease.(Psychology and Behavioral Sciences (193))(Brief article). Author(s):M.O. Harrison, C.L. Edwards and H.G. Koenig. Source:Pain Digest 16.2 (March-April 2006): p106(1). (175 words) Document Type:Magazine/Journal Bookmark:Bookmark this Document Library Links: * Full Text :COPYRIGHT 2006 Springer Examination of the

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Blackwell Synergy - Pain Medicine, Volume 6 Issue 4 Page 277-279, July 2005 (Full Text) The Clinical Art of Pain Medicine: Balancing Evidence, Experience, Ethics, and Policy * Rollin M. Gallagher, MD, MPH Editor-in-Chief Efficacy, effectiveness, morbidity risks, and costs are four metrics that inform our conscious clinical reasoning about treatment for each patient. These metrics also inform

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Blackwell Synergy - Pain Medicine, Volume 6 Issue 1 Page 5-10, January 2005 (Article Abstract) Pain Medicine Volume 6 Issue 1 Page 5-10, January 2005 Louis W. Sullivan MD, Barry A. Eagel MD (2005) Leveling the Playing Field: Recognizing and Rectifying Disparities in Management of Pain Pain Medicine 6 (1) , 5–10 doi:10.1111/j.1526-4637.2005.05016.x Salimah H.Meghani, MSN, CRNP, Doctoral

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Race, Ethnicity, and Pain Treatment: Striving to Understand the Causes and Solutions to the Disparities in Pain Treatment Vence L. Bonham The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Volume 28, Issue s4, Page 52-68, Mar 2001, doi: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2001.tb00039.x Summary | References | Full Text PDF (1745 KB) Disparities in Pain: Ethical Issues Carmen Green, MD, Knox H. Todd,

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If you have a few minutes, I would greatly appreciate your help with a research project I am involved in. We need people to fill out an online survey. This survey is part of a project studying how pain patient narratives are perceived by others and how these stories impact their treatment. The University of Southern California Health Sciences Campus Institutional Review Board has determined that

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Eighteenth Century Collections Online -- Search Display Dodsley, Robert. Pain and patience. A poem. By R. Dodsley. London, 1742 [1743]. 12pp. Literature and Language Source Citation: Dodsley, Robert. Pain and patience. A poem. By R. Dodsley. London, 1742 [1743]. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale Group. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO Gale Document Number: CW3310212522

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SB 402 Health: opiate drugs. BILL NUMBER: SB 402 CHAPTERED 10/10/97 BILL TEXT CHAPTER 839 FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE OCTOBER 10, 1997 APPROVED BY GOVERNOR OCTOBER 9, 1997 PASSED THE SENATE SEPTEMBER 5, 1997 PASSED THE ASSEMBLY SEPTEMBER 2, 1997 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY AUGUST 28, 1997 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JULY 22, 1997 AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JUNE 30, 1997 AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 24, 1997 AMENDED IN

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From Against the Epistle of Manichaeus For who can doubt that the whole of that which is called evil is nothing else than corruption? Different evils may, indeed, be called by different names; but that which is the evil of all things in which any evil is perceptible is corruption. So the corruption of the educated mind is ignorance: the corruption of the prudent mind is imprudence; the

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JNCI Monographs 2004 2004(32):119-123; doi:10.1093/jncimonographs/lgh028 Abstract There is not yet sufficient evidence-based experience for the coordinated treatment of three symptoms that cluster in cancer: pain, depression, and fatigue. Each symptom taken individually has accepted treatment modalities. With some overlap between these symptoms, established treatments for one symptom may "

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The New York Times September 10, 2007Drugs Banned, Many of World’s Poor Suffer in Pain By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. WATERLOO, Sierra Leone — Although the rainy season was coming on fast, Zainabu Sesay was in no shape to help her husband. Ditches had to be dug to protect their cassava and peanuts, and their mud hut’s palm roof was sliding off. But Mrs. Sesay was sick. She had breast cancer in a form

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In his recent Why feeling more pain may be better for you, Tom Stafford reminds us of the classic Kahneman study which yielded both the Peak End rule and succor to sadistic proctologists.If that description didn't tempt you to go read the column, here's the super short version: Kahneman found that when asked how bad a painful experience was, people recall (roughly) the average of how bad it was

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For those in Southern California…..DH SoCal Research SlamLocation: California State University, NorthridgeDate: May 4, 2013Deadline: April 15, 2013DH SoCal is a network dedicated to building community and collaboration amongst digital humanists in Southern California. On May 4, 2013 we are holding our first research slam at California State University, Northridge. This one-day event will be

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