Chronic Pain Management
The link below provides information about a free 6-week program developed by Stanford University and offered through the St. Francois County Health Dept. It helps chronic pain sufferers to develop a self-management program that fits their needs, symptoms, and emotions.
The link below provides access to calls through the Pain Connection, a program of the U.S. Pain Foundation. Each call has a topic dealing with different ways of coping with chronic pain and developing new skills. Participants have the option to discuss the topic or remain silent and just listen.
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The worldwide opioid crisis has negatively impacted and destroyed lives. Both the addict and their loved ones undergo untold challenges physically, financially, mentally, and spiritually. But there have been additional quiet victims during this crisis -- chronic pain patients. Sufferers of legitimate chronic pain and serious illnesses are often dependent upon opioids to make their lives manageable and even tolerable. During this crisis patients have at times been denied medications, seen significant reductions in their prescriptions, and found an uptick in regulations and requirements that can be costly and cumbersome.
This pages offers a few resource links for outlets for you, the chronic pain sufferer, to express frustrations you may be experiencing due to this crisis. We offer hopes and prayers for your spiritual and physical well-being and hope that these outlets might help with the emotional burden you may be facing. If you have any comments or suggestions that may help us to help you, please feel free to contact an Episcopal Recovery Ministries representative by clicking here. May God bless you and keep you. |