Season 7, Episode 10
Marc sits down with Dr. Abhimanyu Sud, MD, PhD, a physician and medical educator whose work focuses on the complex intersections of chronic pain, mental illness, and opioid use
SUMMARY OF EPISODE:
4:30 - Connection between chronic pain and mood disorders (depression/anxiety)
6:15 - What is chronic pain (vs. acute pain)?
8:45 - 4 common medications used for chronic pain
11:00 - Are opioids effective for chronic pain in long-term?
15:20 - The consequences of ignoring (or pushing through) pain?
18:30 - The side-effects of chronic NSAID use?
22:00 - Impact of meditation on pain?
24:40 - How does meditation change the brain (specific to pain)
30:00 - Where to start when learning meditation?
33:45 - What is pranayama (and how to use it)?
37:00 - Evolution of research in chronic pain and meditation
ABOUT DR. SUD:
physician, medical educator, and health services researcher based in Toronto, Ontario and Chief Scientific Officer for the Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence for Canadian Veterans. His clinical, research, education, and advocacy work focuses on the complex intersections of chronic pain, mental illness, and opioid use.
RESEARCH PAPERS:
Pharmaceutical company responses to Canadian opioid advertising restrictions: A framing analysis
Chronic struggle: an institutional ethnography chronic pain and marginalization
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