Pain Medicine is a multi-disciplinary journal dedicated to the pain clinician, teacher and researcher. It is the Official Journal of the American Academy of Pain Medicine and of the Faculty of Pain Medicine of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists.

The journal is devoted to the advancement of pain management, education and research.

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Overwhelming popularity among current readers make the following articles a must-read:

Fibromyalgia Symptoms Are Reduced by Low-Dose Naltrexone: A Pilot Study
Jarred Younger, PhD, and Sean Mackey, MD, PhD
Vol. 10, No. 4, May/June 2009

Painful Diabetic Neuropathy: Epidemiology, Natural History, Early Diagnosis, and Treatment Options
Aristidis Veves, MD, Miroslav Backonja, MD and Rayaz A. Malik, MB, PhD
Vol. 9, No. 6, September 2008

Pain Medicine Position Paper
Michel Y. Dubois, MD, Rollin M. Gallagher, MD, MPH, Philipp M. Lippe, MD
Vol. 10, No. 6, September 2009

Pain among Veterans of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom: Do Women and Men Differ?
Robert D. Kerns, Steven K. Dobscha
Vol. 10, No. 7, July 2004

Proposed New Diagnostic Criteria for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
R. Norman Harden, MD, Stephen Bruehl, PhD, Michael Stanton-Hicks, MB, BS, DMSc, FRCA, ABPM, and Peter R. Wilson, MB, BS
Vol. 8, No. 4, May/June 2007

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Pain Medicine continues to demonstrate its ever-increasing influence in the field. Read and cite these important research articles today:

The Unequal Burden of Pain: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Pain
Carmen R. Green, MD, Karen O. Anderson, PhD, Tamara A. Baker, PhD, Lisa C. Campbell, PhD, Sheila Decker, PhD, Roger B. Fillingim, PhD, Donna A. Kaloukalani, MD, MPH, Kathyrn E. Lasch, PhD, Cynthia Myers, PhD, Raymond C. Tait, PhD, Knox H. Todd, MD, MPH, and April H. Vallerand, PhD, RN
Vol. 4, No. 3, September 2003

A Double-Blind, Randomized Multicenter Trial Comparing Duloxetine with Placebo in the Management of Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathic Pain
Joel Raskin, MD, FRCPC, Yili L. Pritchett, PhD, Fujun Wang, PhD, Deborah N. D'Souza, PhD, MBA, Amy L. Waninger, BS, Smriti Iyengar, PhD, and Joachim F. Wernicke, MD, PhD
Vol. 6, No. 5, September 2005

Predicting Aberrant Behaviors in Opioid-Treated Patients: Preliminary Validation of the Opioid Risk Tool
Lynn R. Webster, MD, and Rebecca M. Webster
Vol. 6, No. 6, November 2005

Universal Precautions in Pain Medicine: A Rational Approach to the Treatment of Chronic Pain
Douglas L. Gourlay, MD, MSc, FRCPC, FASAM, Howard A. Heit, MD, FACP, FASAM, and Abdulaziz Almahrezi, MD, CCFP
Vol. 6, No. 2, March 2005

Satisfaction with epidural and intravenous patient-controlled analgesia
Allen H. Lebovits, PhD, Panagiotis Zenetos, MD, Daniel K. O'Neill, MD, Donna Cox, RN, Michel Y. Dubois, MD, Lynn A. Jansen, RN, PhD, and Herman Turndorf, MD
Vol. 2, No. 4, December 2001