Guest(s)
Penney Cowan
Topic
Prescription Medicine
Topic Info
September is Pain Awareness Month. Pain is an important sensation, alerting you to possible injury. Chronic pain is different. Chronic pain persists for weeks, months, even years and 100 million people in America are currently living with it. The good news is there are ways to treat chronic pain, but, these medications are often the most abused or misused!
Penney Cowan, executive director of the American Chronic Pain Association (ACPA)joins the show to provide information on the safe use, storage and disposal of these pain medications.
Penney Cowan, executive director of the American Chronic Pain Association (ACPA)joins the show to provide information on the safe use, storage and disposal of these pain medications.
Guest Info
Penney Cowan is the founder and executive director of the American Chronic Pain Association (ACPA). Cowan lives with chronic pain and established the ACPA in 1980. The ACPA provides peer support and education in pain management skills to people with pain and their families. Over the past 27 years, Cowan has been an advocate and consumer representative for pain issues.
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Host
Dr. Derrick DeSilva
Original Air Date
10 / 4 / 2010
