Thank you.
There is a great deal that can be done. The most important thing is to provide appropriate pain management, because once you have multidisciplinary pain care that you can access, once you know about your pain condition, once you're familiar with all of the coping strategies, you learn how to make adjustments in your life. You learn how to take control back in your life. Then it doesn't matter so much if someone calls you a druggy or a pusher or a malingerer, because you know that you've taken control back, that you are living the most productive life that you can. Limits that you thought you had when you could not access appropriate pain management and get the help that you needed, you no longer have.