Study: Veterans with PTSD more likely to be prescribed addictive painkillers

Read my article on this study at Mother Nature Network.

Time: "The Army Venn Diagram from Hell"

Yikes.

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The Army Venn Diagram from Hell | Battleland | TIME.com

PTSD and Chronic Pain

PTSDers with chronic pain "experience greater difficulty coping with the pain, higher levels of pain and distress, and greater interference of pain in their lives than people who have no PTSD symptoms," according to the National Pain Foundation. Understanding that a patient has both PTSD and chronic pain is essential for a medical provider to offer thorough and correct treatment for both conditions, or else they are at the risk of solving neither.

The National Pain Foundation's article PTSD and Chronic Pain offers tips for patients talking with their doctors and for doctors treating patients with PTSD.