Opioid Crisis Forces Physicians To Focus On Alternative Pain Treatments

The opioid epidemic has forced doctors to think about alternative ways to help their patients manage pain.

Toby Talbot / Associated Press file

Dr. Anne Marie McKenzie-Brown is familiar with pain. Pain of varying degrees, stages, perceptions, types and sources.

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“All of my patients have chronic pain, some have muscular skeleton pain, some have nerve pain,” says the director of the Emory Pain Center, an outpatient clinic located at Emory University Hospital Midtown.