Synopsis
The Opiate Cure tells the stories of painful people whose mental illness were relieved when they were given opioids for their chronic pain. This improbable outcome has occurred in those with bipolar depression and mania, attention deficit disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and narcolepsy. These several diseases are now linked together, constituting the bipolar spectrum. Linked also to bipolar spectrum is chronic pain in its many forms, including migraine. This book will clearly demonstrate that bipolar spectrum is uniquely responsive to opiate therapy. The Opiate Cure offers new insights and, more importantly, hope for those with acute and/or chronic pain.
About the Author
A graduate of Vanderbilt University Medical School, (Nashville, TN), Robert T. Cochran Jr., MD, completed his residency in internal medicine and neurology at the University of Texas and Duke University. In 1963, he founded his private medical practice, and over the course of many years has treated thousands of patients with severe and chronic pain. This experience, in conjunction with that gained as co-director of the Pain Center at Centennial Hospital (Nashville) in the 1990s, led Dr. Cochran to make ground-breaking links between pain and various psychiatric disorders. His first book, Understanding Chronic Pain, explored these relationships.
Dr. Cochran retired from his active Nashville medical practice in 2012 and is still actively working in the fight against chronic pain.
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