
What Happens in Vegas Still Happened (The Adam and Dr. Drew Show Classics)
The Adam and Dr. Drew Show
00:00
The Importance of Pain Assessment
For 10 years, pain was the fifth vital sign. If you didn't pay as much attention to pain assessment as your pulse and your blood pressure, you were dinged by the state. Is it safe to say that if you have chronic pain, masking it with an opioid is just not going to work? I would consider that massively successful. It intensifies the pain. And it makes your brain want more.
Transcript
Play full episode