• 1. Pain without a Pathoanatomic Diagnosis


• Catherine F. Stannard


• 2. Opioid Therapy of Chronic Pain in Persons with known Substance Use Disorder


• Seddon R. Savage and Julie Franklin Sorensen


• 3. Screening before Embarking: How to Screen for Addiction Risk in Opioid Prescribing


• Robert N. Jamison, Edward Michna, and Juliana Serraillier


• 4. Functional Pain Syndromes


• Claudia Sommer and Nurcan Üçeyler


• 5. Chronic Opioid Therapy in Childhood and Adolescence


• Stephen C. Brown, Lisa Isaac, Patricia A. McGrath, and Jennifer Tyrrell


• 6. Debilitating Pain


• Eija Kalso


• 7. Chronic Cancer Pain


• Shane Brogan and Perry G. Fine


• 8. Pain After Trauma (including PTSD)


• William C. Becker and Robert D. Kerns


• 9. Opioid Therapy in Chronic Painful Disease


• Daniel Krashin and Andrea M. Trescot


• 10. United States Workers Compensation and Disability


• James P. Robinson


• 11. Using Measurement-based Tools to Improve Pain Care


• David Tauben


• 12. Not a Suitable Candidate: Saying No


• Jane Ballantyne

Jane Ballantyne,Professor of Education and Research, Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States
David J. Tauben, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington, United States

This book offers expert, balanced, concise guidance on how clinicians can navigate a number of complex considerations to formulate a treatment plan for chronic pain that either includes or advisedly excludes opioids.