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Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist
Pain Management
Through the Opioid Epidemic
Guests: Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Nicholas Abidi / Palliative Care Specialist Dr. William Morris
Today we look once again to our Opioid Crisis, a crisis that is like World War III in the cities, towns and villages of our nation.
In just one year of this war we lost more Americans than we did in the entire 19 years of the Viet Nam War.
In our first look, which was Food Chain Radio #1138, we learned what happened when a 13 year-old boy fell off a trampoline and into an opioid addiction that took his family through a decade of opioid hell.
In our second look, #1139, we talked with professionals whose job it is to bring people back from their opioid addictions, and all that they must go through to win the fight against their clients’ addictions.
Today we going to the front lines of the opioid war to meet two doctors who are revising how we treat pain so that we can heal quickly and avoid addiction.
And we are going to ask…
Leave a comment below: Can we manage pain without killing ourselves with opioids?