Substance dependence and chronic pain: Profile of 50 patients treated in an alcohol and drug dependence unit
- 1 August 1986
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Pain
- Vol. 26 (2), 167-174
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-3959(86)90072-2
Abstract
Fifty adult patients with chronic pain and substance dependence were admitted to an inpatient unit for treatment of addiction without primary emphasis on treatment of pain. As a group they had received considerable medical attention for their pain, but relatively little for their addictions. When compared with a group of general medical patients, the study population showed MMPI evidence of considerably more psychopathologic characteristics. MMPI data and family histories of substance dependence did not differentiate the study group from a comparable group in a Pain Management Center.Keywords
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