~~~~~~ PAIN ALERT ~ Week of Jun 22, 2007 ~~~~~~~~~~

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Complementary and Alternative Medicine Use by Primary Care Patients
with Chronic Pain.

Complementary and alternative therapies were popular among patients
with chronic pain who had at least a high school education.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18564996
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Making Sense of Illness : Science, Society, and Disease
by Robert A. Aronowitz

The influence of individual characteristics, including emotions,
lifestyle,
and social class, on a disease process have been largely ignored in
the
initial successes of molecular biology. The holistic approach,
championed by the author, counters this revolution in medicine.

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Pediatric sleep pharmacology.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18555194

Usefulness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for treating
insomnia in patients with anxiety disorders: a pilot study.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18552629

Chronic psychophysiological insomnia: hyperarousal and/or inhibition
deficits? An ERPs investigation.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18548835 [PubMed - in process]19:
Related Articles, LinksJansson-Fröjmark M, Linton SJ.

The course of insomnia over one year: a longitudinal study in the
general population in Sweden.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18548834

Predicting Opioid Misuse by Chronic Pain Patients: A Systematic
Review and Literature Synthesis.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18574359

Efficacy of opioids for chronic pain: a review of the evidence.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18574357

Tobacco Use in Relation to Chronic Pain: Results from a Swedish
Population Survey.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18565000

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