“When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well, he is done for.”
Benjamin Haydon

elcome to the current edition of The Beacon, the Emerging Solutions in Pain (ESP) e-newsletter dedicated to bringing you the latest content updates to the website over the past 14 days. Visit www.EmergingSolutionsinPain.com where you will find exciting new information designed to assist your clinical practice and provoke thought and discussion in pain management. 

Minimizing Risk, Maximizing Outcomes

Emerging Solutions in Pain is delighted to announce the launch of ESP Mobile, a free medical application for health care professionals involved in pain management or addiction medicine. ESP Mobile provides clinicians with award-winning, robust multimedia medical information in a convenient mobile format that can be accessed on demand on the iPhone^® and iPod touch^®.

ESP Mobile contains the following valuable resources:

ESP Latest News
Offers up-to-date news, journal summaries, clinical trial results and other clinically relevant information.

ESP Radio
Provides opportunities to hear national thought leaders discuss the key issues facing clinicians.

ESP FAQ of the Week
Presents the most commonly asked pain management and/or addiction medicine questions, in easy-to-view, brief video vignettes.

To download ESP Mobile for iPhone and iPod touch, search for ‘ESP Mobile’ in the Apple iTunes^®App Store or look under ‘free apps’ in the Medical category.

If you like our application, please do give us a 5-star rating and leave some positive comments to encourage others to download it also!




Our In the Know column provides bi-monthly abstracts and reviews of the latest journal articles.

Degenhardt L, et al. Mortality among clients of a state-wide opioid pharmacotherapy program over 20 years: Risk factors and lives saved. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2009;105:9-15.

The Knowledge Library is ESP's video library that collects the most commonly asked questions, and presents them in easy-to-view, brief video vignettes.

Lynn Webster, MD, FACPM, FASAM Question: How often do you order urine drug tests?

The ESP Interdisciplinary Pearls aims to select specific pieces of content on ESP and differentially interpret them by relevant and highly experienced clinical specialties to ensure content is relevant to an interdisciplinary team.

Paul Arnstein, PhD, APRN-BC, provides an interpretation for nurses on The First Pain Advocacy Step is to Take One by Micke A. Brown, BSN, RN.

MediCom Worldwide, Inc. strives to ensure future activities meet your educational needs. We would appreciate your assistance in completing a brief survey question.

Our current poll is:
In my clinical experience, I have prescribed antidepressants in chronic pain patients to treat symptoms other than depression.
(State level of agreement or disagreement)

ESP has an exciting challenge game, the ESP TEXT YOUR KNOWLEDGE.

The ESP Text Your Knowledge challenge tests your knowledge of pain management trivia. Why not challenge our LEADERS to be entered into the monthly drawing to receive a complimentary set of the ESP Faces of Pain!

Congratulations to Laurie Sahlie, our monthly winner in November for the complimentary set of ESP Faces of Pain.

Text Your Knowledge today!

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For further information on all our latest postings, further award-winning and multimedia educational
resources and practice tools, please visit www.EmergingSolutionsinPain.com now!

Learn • Grow • Improve

ESP would like to acknowledge independent educational grants from
Cephalon, Inc., Endo Pharmaceuticals, PriCara®, Division of Ortho-McNeil-Janssen
Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Purdue Pharma L.P.

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