Debra Hughes, MS

It is imperative that the United States finds more effective ways to deal with the growing availability and utilization of opiates and other drugs for pain that is compassionate and grounded in medicine.

Stress and anxiety are critical elements of the human pain response, and these can be quantified not only with functional imaging but simply by measuring sympathetic response.

Headache treatment depends on several factors: making an accurate diagnosis, ruling out alternative etiologies and addressing the headache’s impact, with the ultimate goal of headache relief.