New Views in Addiction and Chronic Pain

New Views in Addiction and Chronic Pain webinar series, focuses on the science and characteristics and dependency from chronic pain. Learn about the science and discover new characteristics about chronic pain which are physiologically different from acute pain. These characteristics can feed into opiate dependency. This program will outline:

• New Views of Addiction and Chronic Pain
• "Attraction to Pain" rewind/conditioning
• How pain is processed in the body & mind
• Chronic pain is not just about acute pain
• "I want my life back" common theme
• Opiate Induced Hyperalgesia
• "Playing with Pain” HBO interview with Dr. Dan
• The Meaning of Pain
• How the brain chooses what it wants to call pain
• How to treat chronic pain without an opiate
• Chronic Pain Anonymous

Learning Objectives

• Understanding that chronic pain is physiologically different from acute pain
• Understanding how chronic use of opiates can cause pain and offer ways to treat pain without opiates
• Understand how chronic pain can promote a chronic dependency

About the Speaker

Daniel Headrick, MD,
CEO & Medical Director
Pacific Coast Recovery Center

Dr. Headrick frequently lectures on drugs and addiction and pain and addiction to audiences as diverse as school students, physician groups, treatment professionals, church groups, business executives, and medical students at University of California, Irvine Medical School. Prior to opening the Pacific Coast Recovery Center, Dr. Headrick was the Medical Director of the Hoag Hospital Chemical Dependency Center for 11 years. He has also served as Medical Director of the Chemical Dependency Unit at Charter Hospital in Corona California and the primary attending physician at the former Genesis Program at South Coast Medical Center. In addition to his position as Medical Director of the Pacific Coast Recovery Center, Dr. Headrick is an associate professor at the University of California, Irvine Medical School.