Medication Management

Our approach

Medications can be an important part of managing chronic pain, especially when combined with procedures, physical therapy, and healthy activity.

Our goal is to use the safest, most effective combination for you, at the lowest dose that helps, and to keep reviewing it as your needs change. We follow federal and state guidelines, including the CDC’s 2022 clinical practice guideline on pain treatment.¹

• Function firstWe focus on what matters to you, like walking, working, sleeping, and enjoying family time.
• Many optionsMost plans use non-opioid medicines and non-medication treatments first.¹
• Coordinated careMedicines are planned alongside your procedures and therapy, not in isolation.
• Regular reviewWe check benefits and side effects at every visit and adjust as needed.
• PersonalizedPharmacogenetic testing can help guide choices when appropriate.
• Safety built inMonitoring and screening help keep your treatment safe over the long term.

Medication options

Behavioral health and risk screening

Chronic pain affects sleep, mood, and stress, and those in turn affect pain. We use short, validated questionnaires to check for depression, anxiety, and substance use risk before and during long-term medication therapy. When needed, we help coordinate behavioral health care, which can improve both pain and quality of life.¹

• Prescription monitoringWe check Arkansas’s prescription monitoring program, as state law requires and the CDC recommends.¹
• Overdose preventionWhen risk is higher, we offer naloxone and teach you and your family how to use it.¹
• Support when you need itIf medication use ever becomes a concern, we offer judgment-free medication-assisted treatment.

Common questions