The specter of addiction is the main problem of prescribing opioid medications. As addiction specialists, we at OMG are uniquely situated to treat pain, identifying patients losing control of their opioid use, and to intervene appropriately...
Pain clinics usually pressure patients into costly and invasive procedures, such as epidural steroid injections, radio-frequency ablations, spinal cord stimulators, or intrathecal pain pumps. At OMG, we do not perform ANY interventional procedures because we do not believe these procedures provide much long-term benefit for most chronic pain patients...
Fewer and fewer doctors' offices are now willing to prescribe opioids. As a result, many chronic pain patients are suffering. At OMG, we continue to prescribe opioids, but we can do so ONLY IF we can determine that the medications we prescribe are being taken properly. Making sure medications are being taken properly is known as compliance monitoring and it is at the core of what we do.
Also known as: Opioid Management Group