Listen to this interview with Dr. Mel Pohl about pain and avoiding addiction.

The Recovering Body: Physical and Spiritual Fitness for Living Clean and Sober by Jennifer Matesa

 Read more about the book here

Read more about Anne M. Fletcher's book here

California

If you are interested in a functional restoration program in California (with an associated opioid detox program), this one is led by William G. Brose, who used to be Director of Pain Management Services at Stanford University Medical School. Find out more here.

Available primarily as a pill called Suboxone, this substitute opioid – intended to help individuals struggling with opioid addiction – can be just as lethal as the real thing. Read about it in the New York Times article “Addiction Treatment With a Dark Side.”

Nevada

The Las Vegas Recovery Center, run by medical director Mel Pohl, MD, FASAM, offers abstinence-based programs to treat chronic pain and addiction. The Chronic Pain Treatment program is designed to reduce patients’ pain and restore them to functional lifestyles without the use of opiate narcotics.

Barry Meier, a reporter for the New York Times, has written several important and enlightening books on the topic of painkillers, including Painkiller: A “Wonder” Drug’s Trail of Addiction and Death and  A World of Hurt: Fixing Pain Medicine’s Biggest Mistake.