Abstracts tagged "alcohol use and pain"

Abstract Number: 370 • 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting
Relationship Between Alcohol Consumption and Symptom Severity in Chronic Pain Patients
J. Ryan Scott¹, Steven E. Harte², Chad M. Brummett¹, Richard E. Harris¹, Afton L. Hassett¹ and Daniel J. Clauw¹, ¹Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, ²Department of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Background/Purpose: As many as 25% of chronic pain patients use alcohol to manage pain.1 Preliminary studies in fibromyalgia patients have shown that low to moderate…