Are patients with severe chronic pain being denied appropriate opioid therapy because of the fears and stigma surrounding the nation’s opioid crisis? One pain management expert put the spotlight on that critical issue in a keynote speech at PAINWeek 2023, in Las Vegas.
“People are stigmatized for taking the drugs,” Jeremy A. Adler, DMSc, PA-C, the chief operating officer at Pacific Pain Medicine Consultants, in Encinitas, Calif., was quoted saying in a Pain