Rachel Zoffness Promo Clip
Clip: Season 6 Episode 8 | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
Rachel Zoffness illustrates how treating pain is about treating the person as a whole.
Rachel Zoffness illustrates how treating pain is about treating the person as a whole, as pain involves cognitive, emotional, behavioral and environmental factors.
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Rachel Zoffness Promo Clip
Clip: Season 6 Episode 8 | 1m 4sVideo has Closed Captions
Rachel Zoffness illustrates how treating pain is about treating the person as a whole, as pain involves cognitive, emotional, behavioral and environmental factors.
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A lot of providers are taught that chronic pain is not curable, or that the treatment for chronic pain is a pill.
And that is what a lot of people have been told for many years.
And of course, we've seen how that has gone.
And we know now, unquestioningly, that the true and most effective treatment for chronic pain is not just a pill, because chronic pain is never a purely biological problem.
And now what have we done to these people who have been on opioids long-term for a lot of years?
A lot of them have been marginalized and stigmatized.
And a number of people have, of course, developed very serious addiction and substance use issues.
80% of people who are addicted to heroin started out as pain patients.
80% of the people we label "mentally ill drug addicts" started out as people who went to their doctors, in pain, looking for help.
What have we done to people living with pain?
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