Pain Management And Prescription Painkillers
The deaths of Heath Ledger and Anna Nicole Smith focused attention on prescription pain killers. Michael Jackson, too, may have been taking pain medication.
Doctors walk a fine line in treating patients who are seeking relief from chronic pain.
Guests:
Dr. Paul Christo, director of the Multidisciplinary Pain Fellowship Program, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Division of Pain Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Sandra Johnson, professor emerita of law and health care ethics at St. Louis University Law School
Mark Caverly, supervisory diversion investigator for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
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