ALTERNATIVES TO OPIOIDS IN TREATING PAIN |WORKERS COMPENSATION CONSULTANTS
As injured workers are steered away from treating their pain with opioids, some in the workers’ compensation community have asked, “What is the alternative for treating pain?” Join us as we learn about two emerging alternatives: marijuana and evidence-based non-pharmacological treatments, including mindfulness-based and cognitive behavioral approaches. The session will feature the latest research on these alternatives as well as first-hand accounts from state government officials on how one alternative, medical marijuana, is being incorporated into the treatment of injured workers in their state workers’ compensation systems as well as what it is like to be managing a program that is very new and federally illegal. Learn More About experienced Workers Compensation Consultants
Mr. Paul Sighinolfi, Executive Director of the Maine Workers’ Compensation Board
Mr. Paul Tauriello, Director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation, Colorado Department of Labor
Dr. Dawn Ehde, University of Washington
Dr. Dean Hashimoto, Chair of the Health Care Services Board, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Mr. Paul Tauriello, Director of the Division of Workers’ Compensation, Colorado Department of Labor
Dr. Dawn Ehde, University of Washington
Dr. Dean Hashimoto, Chair of the Health Care Services Board, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
National Academy of Science Report on Medical Marijuana | Workers Comp Consultants
- Improvement in chronic pan
- Substantial evidence
- Very little known about efficacy
- Increased risk of vehicle crashes
- Development of schizophrenia and psychosis
- Marijuana cannot be associated with an increase in job injuries
- 25% decrease in opioid mortality rate in states that had medical marijuana
- 20% decrease in opioid addiction rate in states with medical marijuana
- Federal laws are main obstacle
- Lack of prescription standards, routes of administration, dosage
- Difficult to conform to federal banking and other laws.
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Some states have allowed coverage in WC | Workers Comp Consultants
- California – Cockerell vs Farmers Insurance
- Maine – Series of Cases
- Massachusetts – unpublished
- Colorado – ?
- New Mexico
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Colorado | Workers Comp Consultants
- Obama administration – Ogden Memo loosened the Federal enforcement
- First to allow recreationally
- Smoothest harmonization
- Marijuana – $1.3 billion sales – 30% increase over last year
Maine | Workers Comp Consultants
- Certification as FDA has not approved, so no prescriptions can be written
- Typical patient 58 year old with back pain
- Condition specific recommendation or certification
- November 2009 – 2.5 ounces
- Added in intractable pain as a condition
- Burgoin case – ALJ ruled that marijuana was reasonable necessary, appealed to Supreme Court, cost of medications vs. just marijuana indicated a 75% in medication costs.
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Questions
Centered on concerns about
- Operating a vehicle or
- Being under the influence on-the-job
- Better way to treat pain that just prescribing marijuana – should be a total approach
- Marijuana is another tool in the toolbox of pain treatment
Non-pharmaceutical Pain Management| Workers Comp Consultants
- Biopsychosocial Model of Pain
- Who manages the pain – the individual themselves
- Physical activity-Exercise
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy – CBT –
- changing the negative thinking
- better than no treatment
- magnitude of pain relief is similar to analgesics
- Mindfulness Meditation
- Should be integrated into overall pain treatment
- Collaborative Care – integrated healthcare – Care Manager is the hub of treatment
Questions
How does one have the Workers Comp community accept the psychological treatment part of an injury as the attempt is to avoid this type of treatment – screening at 6- 10 weeks of care for high risk to send to collaborative care. Learn More About experienced Workers Compensation Consultants
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