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Letters: Narcotics-free pain treatment

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Re “Dying for relief,” Dec. 9

Your article may give readers the impression that narcotic drugs are the only way to treat pain. However, by the time pain-hardened individuals seek out doctors, serial narcotic monotherapy is counterproductive. Behavioral, physical and social factors beg for attention in combination with detox and other proven non-narcotic regimens.

Treating the whole patient is the key.

William K. Solberg

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Los Angeles

The writer is a professor emeritus at the UCLA School of Dentistry and the former director of the university’s Orofacial Pain Clinic.

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