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Transformative multidisciplinary approach to decrease pain and addiction.

Our Center for Pain Therapeutics and Addiction Research has two areas of focus. In pain, we focus on both mechanisms of pain and therapies to reduce pain or block its transmission, whether oral-facial complex focused or for other regions of the body. Therapies include new novel non-addictive medications, diet/nutritional modification and alternative therapies. Our focus on addiction management concerns expansion of duties of oral health care providers in screening for addictions, and when feasible, instituting brief motivational intervention approaches and/or referral for management. We know many individuals visit an oral health care provider on a regular basis, but infrequently access medical providers, thus the necessity for the oral health care team to take on a leading role in addiction management where current approaches have failed to curb this epidemic.