Gavin: Health Literacy and Pain Management: How to Do Patient Education

Whether or not opioid pain medication might actually worsen pain is a legitimate clinical discussion and an important claims management topic. While the phenomenon is researched and written about in medical journals, talked about at various conferences and acknowledged among physicians, I had not yet seen a committed attempt by a state regulator to educate injured workers about what might be happening to them. And then New York State Workers' Compensation Board published this gem. The brochure was developed in cooperation with the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Subs...