Re: Chronic Pain [and] Addiction

[David]

On Fri, 1 Oct 1999, Paul Brandon went:

> I believe that most of the addiction problem is _not_ with pain medication,
> but with tranquilizers and sedatives in their varoius forms.

The question of long-term benzodiazepine use (in, say, Generalized
Anxiety Disorder) is at least as complex and controversial as the
question of long-term opiate use in chronic pain.  Again, the patients
at greatest risk seem to be the one who'd had additional preexisting
psychiatric problems.  Again, the data get spun in different ways by
different authors.

--David Epstein
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