David, a 38-year-old father of four and five-year survivor of fungal meningitis, experiences the long-term effects of contaminated epidural injections that have left him with headaches, visual disturbances, tinnitus, adhesive arachnoiditis and fibromyalgia.
His story exemplifies the gap between state and federal health care laws and treatment protocols for those with chronic pain requiring high-dose opioid therapy, wrote Terri Lewis, PhD, in “States of Pain: Part II. The Influence of