Chronic: The Pain Game

Chronic: The Pain Game is six-part podcast series focusing on the personal stories of chronic pain patients including the challenges and obstacles they face with obtaining adequate treatment, particularly opioids . The podcast features interviews with pain patients, patient advocates, healthcare professionals and a governing body, which highlight and support claims of existing problems and obstacles.

Documentary Society & Culture Government

Update frequency: every day
Average duration: 19 minutes
Episodes: 8
Years Active: 2022

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Charades...or Charade?

We discuss the impact of the 2016 CDC Guideline on intractable pain patients and clinicians.

00:27:43 | Thu 10 Mar 2022

Knock Knock...Who's There?

We discuss the Physicians for Responsible Opioid Prescribing (PROP).

00:15:34 | Thu 10 Mar 2022

Truth or Dare?

We meet chronic pain patients and discuss their challenges in dealing with pain.

00:28:51 | Thu 10 Mar 2022

The Monopoly. Don't Pass Go.

We discuss the DEA's role in the enforcement of prescription opioids and the effects it has had on prescribing clinicians.

00:24:44 | Thu 10 Mar 2022

Chess Not Checkers

We discuss resolution and strategies to reverse the harm done by the CDC Guideline.

00:34:36 | Thu 10 Mar 2022

Hide & Seek

We discuss how DEA enforcement and the CDC Guideline has negatively impacted the practice of pain management and big Pharma.

00:15:24 | Thu 10 Mar 2022