Who or What Killed Elvis Presley & Howard Hughes?

• How Dr. Forest Tennant got to the Pain Management World
• How Pain Management started in the United States
• The Difference Between Opioid Dependence and Addiction
• Why Proper Usage of Opioids is Important
• How Advancing Technology has affected Pain Management
• "Technology did not overcome the basics." –Dr. Forest Tennant
• "It's great to have all of these technological advances, but there's no one magic bullet. They have to be assembled or aggregated in a symphony in order to really maximize the patient outcome and patient experience." –Dr. Stephen Barrett
• "The practice of medicine will always have to be done by a patient, a family, and a good medical practitioner; the three have to always work together." –Dr. Forest Tennant
• The Strange Medical Saga of Elvis Presley
• "Ehlers-Danlos causes collagen to disappear."
• Ehlers Danlos is now recognized
• The Elvis Presley Trial
• The Howard Hughes Case
• "He had Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy or Chronic Regional Pain Syndrome; this is a syndrome in which you can't even cut your fingernails, brush your teeth or touch your own skin at times."
• "Anybody who's got intractable pain out there ought to hear this: He got his intractable pain in 1946. He lives 30 years taking opioids and Valium every day, during that 30 years, and accomplish a lot of things in society that we still to this day benefit from." –Dr. Forest Tennant
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• Integrating Opioid with Other Medications
• Today, prescribing a patient benzodiazepine with opioid, you get warnings. But then, some folks that aren't really managed well with just an opioid integrate a benzodiazepine, and their pain becomes more controllable and they actually end up taking less opioid."
• "Good pain doctors know that you're going to have to have a drug in the valium class, plus a drug in the morphine class if you're going to relieve severe pain." –Dr. Forest Tennant
• "What the government and the guidelines have been saying is be cautious, be careful. But if you got to use them, use them. Today, we've gone too far the other way where people aren't using them when people need them." –Dr. Forest Tennant
• Misconceptions About Drug Addiction and Drug Abusers
• "It's time that we start putting some responsibility on the individual to take drugs as prescribed." –Dr. Forest Tennant