Psychological, Ethical, and Legal Issues in Pain and Opioid Use

The Opioid Crisis and Pain Management in the United States

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Psychological mechanism of pain

Pain is an important task of the nervous system as it provides the body with signs of an actual or a potential injury (Coetzee, 2013). According to Taylor (2015), pain can be categorized as both emotional experience and sensory considering it is affected by psychological factors among them including past experience, anxiety or fear and beliefs about pain. Pain can also be described as a personal experience which has two corresponding aspects: the first aspect is a confined sensation in a specific part of the body and the other one is the unpleasant quality of variable severity which is commonly linked to the behaviour which is focused at either terminating or relieving the experience (Rezek, 2016).

Sensory modalities and pain have got…