title: Prescription opioid addiction and chronic pain: More than a feeling.
abstract: A patient, long before becoming the subject of medical scrutiny is, at first simply a storyteller, a narrator of suffering-a traveler who has visited the kingdom of the ill. "To relieve an illness one must begin, then, by understanding the story." The Emperor of All Maladies; Siddhartha Mukherjee.
authors.affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Science, 11075 Santa Monica Blvd, #200, Los Angeles, CA 90025, United States. Electronic address: lwalter@ucla.edu.
authors.forename: Walter
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ling
mesh_terms: D000701:Analgesics, Opioid / Q000009:adverse effects* / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D059350:Chronic Pain / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000523:psychology*; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D004644:Emotions / Q000187:drug effects*; D019983:Guideline Adherence; D006801:Humans; D009293:Opioid-Related Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D012752:Shame; D012803:Sick Role; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*; D017211:Treatment Failure; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D000701:Analgesics, Opioid
keywords: Chronic pain; Life stories; Prescription opioid; Suffering