Report on ASAM 4/15/10 Conference in San Francisco:

“Pain and Addiction: Common Threads XI”

By Franklin Perry, M.D., Ph.D.

Rainbow Medical Corporation

Note: While I am by no means a professional reporter, I have been studying pain since 1981 and have practiced pain medicine since 1996 in the San Francisco Bay Area. I attended this conference in San Francisco 4/15/10 and want to share what I have been able to glean from the presentations of a remarkable group of physicians and scientists. For clarity and for proper attribution, I will italicize my own contributions herein and footnote those of others to the best of my ability.