Mark D. Sullivan, MD, PhD

Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at @UWMedicine • Author of The Right to Pain Relief and other deep roots of the opioid epidemic from Oxford U Pr

[Mark D. Sullivan, MD, PhD @DrMarkDSullivan]

New Psychology Today blog post from me: Promising Results from new Psychological Treatments for Pain Relief describing new pain recovery therapies based on a new theory of pain neuroscience
Promising Results for New Psychological Treatments for Pain Relief

[Mark D. Sullivan, MD, PhD @DrMarkDSullivan]

Questioning the Boundary Between Pain and Suffering | Psychology Today https://t.co/pkelZOJbxl

[Mark D. Sullivan, MD, PhD @DrMarkDSullivan]

Human pain is not defined as a social phenomenon. But if you take an evolutionary perspective, the survival value of pain can only be understood in light of human social capacities. Sullivan MD, de C Williams AC. The social nature of human pain. Pain. 2024 Apr 19. PMID: 38718198.

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Mayo Clinic Proceedings just published a summary of our book on The Right to Pain Relief and other deep roots of the opioid epidemic (Oxford 2023). Free to download: https://t.co/D8HHQfuBdA

[Mark D. Sullivan, MD, PhD @DrMarkDSullivan]

Now published in Family Practice: Caring for Chronic Ilness- is respecting patient autonomy enough or must we promote patient autonomy as well? Summarizes my book: The Patient As Agent (Oxford 2017)

[Mark D. Sullivan, MD, PhD @DrMarkDSullivan]

@DavidJuurlink @TheLancet And being randomized to 6 wks of opioids doubled the risk of opioid misuse (on the COMM) at 52 weeks. Less benefit, more harm than expected.

[Mark D. Sullivan, MD, PhD @DrMarkDSullivan]

See Nick Kristof's excellent column in NYT 5-3-23 on Why Americans Feel More Pain, and my comment: https://t.co/M8Pp3Ex1iE

[Mark D. Sullivan, MD, PhD @DrMarkDSullivan]

Four myths that helped cause the opioid epidemic https://t.co/wHxmKui4oa

[Jason Doctor @jasndoc]

A new paper shows that persons with OUD and persons with chronic pain on opioids are poorly calibrated to risks of overdose. This suggests a standard shared decision-making model is inadequate to identify the best treatment course for these patients.
https://t.co/nY3TejjbdH

[Mark D. Sullivan, MD, PhD @DrMarkDSullivan]

Can we get beyond our obsession with pain intensity? See our new paper: Sullivan MD, Vowles KE, Powelson EB, Patel KV, Reid MC. Prioritizing patient values for chronic pain care: a path out of the pain reduction regime? Fam Pract. 2023 Jan 19:cmad002. doi: 10.1093/fampra/cmad002.

[Mark D. Sullivan, MD, PhD @DrMarkDSullivan]

Our new book (with Jane Ballantyne) is now published:
"The Right to Pain Relief and other deep roots of the opioid epidemic" from Oxford University Press. Available as paperback, Kindle or audiobook (soon) from Amazon or Oxford.

[Mark D. Sullivan, MD, PhD @DrMarkDSullivan]

Our new paper is now officially published in PAIN: Reconsidering Fordyce’s classic article, “Pain and
suffering: what is the unit?” to help make our model
of chronic pain truly biopsychosocial
Mark D. Sullivan, John A. Sturgeon, Mark A. Lumley, Jane C. Ballantyne

[Mark D. Sullivan, MD, PhD @DrMarkDSullivan]

@DavidJuurlink Excellent combination: tramadol + McCarthy!

[Mark D. Sullivan, MD, PhD @DrMarkDSullivan]

@DrHSandhu Congrats Harbinder!

[Mark D. Sullivan, MD, PhD @DrMarkDSullivan]

In a new editorial, we argue that opioid-adjusted and pain-adjusted criteria for OUD are not more valid than unadjusted criteria. Sullivan MD, Ballantyne JC. Understanding the Risks of Long-Term Opioid Therapy for Chronic Pain. Am J Psychiatry. 2022 Oct; 179(10):696-698.

[Mark D. Sullivan, MD, PhD @DrMarkDSullivan]

We have a new paper out about patient experiences with pharmacist-led opioid taper: "I really had somebody in my corner" https://t.co/9Lvhnnglhl

[Mark D. Sullivan, MD, PhD @DrMarkDSullivan]

Coming later this year from Oxford University Press!:

[Mark D. Sullivan, MD, PhD @DrMarkDSullivan]

Jane Ballantyne and I have a new paper in Journal of Pain: "Is Chronic Pain a Disease?" that argues there are many iatrogenic harms of declaring chronic pain to be a disease J Pain. 2022 doi: 10.1016/j.jpain.2022.05.001. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35577236.

[Mark D. Sullivan, MD, PhD @DrMarkDSullivan]

@BethDarnall @speakingabtpain @national_pain We (Sullivan and Ballantyne) beg to differ with ACLU, as explained in our book forthcoming from Oxford U Press: The Right to Pain Relief and other deep roots of our opioid epidemic.

[Steven Beschloss @StevenBeschloss]

Russian POW: “Russia cannot win here anyway. All the variants are obvious. Even if we go till the very end…We can invade the territory, but we cannot invade the people.”