What Patty, Rose and Charles Tell Us about Chronic Pain

The use of opioids in medicine is to some the worst man-made medical disaster in American history. Opioid prescribing to injured workers, after rising for many years, pulled back in the face of severe criticism and regulatory action. While this is welcome news, it is frustrating that the workers’ compensation industry does not yet assuredly prevent and help injured workers recover from chronic pain.   The 20-year story of how Oxycontin and other opioids spread throughout the workers’ comp system, and how the industry responded, is told in the WorkCompCentral Special Report, ...