Opioid Crisis Forces Physicians To Focus On Alternative Pain Treatments | 90.1 FM WABE

Opioid Crisis Forces Physicians To Focus On Alternative Pain Treatments | 90.1 FM WABE: "“All of my patients have chronic pain, some have muscular skeleton pain, some have nerve pain,” says the director of the Emory Pain Center, an outpatient clinic located at Emory University Hospital Midtown.

And then there is the dark side of pain management— opioid addiction.  More than 53,000 Americans died from opioid abuse in 2016, according to the CDC.

Such staggering numbers have McKenzie-Brown and many of her colleagues studying new ways to manage pain. This past year, she sat on a national expert committee established by the Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine in Washington, D.C."



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