ORLANDO — For patients with chronic pain, the right treatment could help prevent suicide, according to Kathleen M. Farrell, DO.
Farrell, an osteopathic physician specializing in family and addiction medicine with Veterans Affairs, will present two lectures Saturday at the Osteopathic Medical Education conference, or OMED.
Farrell told Healio about her presentations — which will focus on the relationship between opioids and suicide risk and managing patients on opioids — and about her long experience treating patients with chronic pain.
“I started family practice in a