I work for Marshfield Clinic Health System in northern Wisconsin and have been with the clinic for 19 years. I have many different roles with the clinic. Mainly, I am a health/pain psychologist working with chronic pain individuals as part of a comprehensive interdisciplinary pain management team.
I am also the Director of Controlled Medication policy for our system which includes over 1200 providers. In this role, I am a member of the team that oversees all opioid prescribing for the system.
I also work with our outpatient substance abuse program as the director of diversion prevention for the suboxone program. I am a team member that works with people who have opioid or other substance use disorders.
Through my years of practice, one of my greatest frustrations is individuals who are prescribed medicines for pain control, but are not using them as prescribed. Specifically, those who were abusing or diverting their meds. For that reason, I developed a urine drug testing model that would help identify those who are using the medicines correctly versus those who are not. That method was patented by the United States Patent Office in 2009 and remains active today.
The opinions I express in this blog and on this site are my own, and do not necessarily represent Marshfield Clinic Health System.
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