Pain Medication Challenges: Appropriate use of opiates and other controlled substances is a program that includes a comprehensive summary of pain medicine by presenting fact-based, expertly informed education important to today’s pain medicine challenges.

Opiate Therapy Controversies
Srdjan Nedeljkovic, MD
This lecture equips the attendee with information concerning what is known and not known from a scientific viewpoint about the long term use of potent opiates in the treatment of pain syndromes.

Psychology of Chronic Pain
Robert Edwards PhD
This presentation covers the complex relationships between the subjective experience of pain and other psychological topics such as emotional state and perception.

Medical-legal Considerations of Chronic Pain
Edward Michna MD
This lecture discusses legal and ethical problems that providers who prescribe opiate pain medications could encounter if correct care is not taken regarding dispensing of these substances and providing education to their patients on proper use.

Opioid Risk Management
Robert Jamison MD
This lecture covers the process of the development of addiction and abusive behaviors in the use of opiate medications and offers ideas and insight into how to minimize these everyday but serious problems.

Toxicology for Chronic Pain
Stacy E. F. Melanson MD PhD
This lecture takes a look at the role of the lab in aiding to maintain adherence to a pain medication regimen through monitoring by blood and urine testing. The limitations of these tests are discussed in detail.

Chronic Pain Disorders
Edgar L. Ross MD
This discussion introduces the basic concepts of pain and pain management including defining pain and its various forms, discussing the brains response to pain and observing the various medical therapies for pain and where their use is appropriate.