1.   Beginning pain treatment before surgery can dramatically reduce the pain a patient feels for months afterwards, a new report suggests.

2.   A patient has the right to stop life support, to ask for aggressive pain treatment which may have the double effect of ending life.

3.   Advocates of better pain treatment said doctors simply needed to educate themselves about current medical thinking.

4.   Brandywine also offers nondrug pain treatments like meditation, massage, physical therapy and guided imagery.

5.   Despite the changes in law and medical board guidelines, pain treatment remains controversial.

6.   Experts say this may have implications for pain treatment in neonatal wards.

7.   For chronic pain treatment, Baren recommends looking for membership in the American Pain Society or the American Academy of Pain Management.

8.   However, patients who do not respond to standard pain treatments may be allowed back on pregabalin.

9.   It also contributed to groups like the American Pain Foundation, which championed the need for better pain treatment.

10.   Opponents said banning assisted suicide could make physicians wary of providing needed pain relief treatment for fear of prosecution.