For Chronic Pain, A Change In Habits Can Beat Opioids For Relief [npr.org]
It took several months and a team of half a dozen doctors, nurses and therapists to help Kim Brown taper off the opioid painkillers she'd been on for two years. Brown, 57, had been taking the pills since a back injury in 2010. It wasn't until she met Dr. Dennis McManus, a neurologist who specializes in managing pain without drugs, that she learned she had some control over her pain. "That's when life changed," she said. [For more on this story by CHRISTINE HERMAN, go to...