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Hypothesizing in the Face of the Opioid Crisis Coupling Genetic Addiction Risk Severity (GARS) Testing with Electrotherapeutic Nonopioid Modalities Such as H-Wave Could Attenuate Both Pain and Hedonic Addictive Behaviors

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  • Ashim Gupta

    (Future Biologics, Lawrenceville, GA 30043, USA)

  • Abdalla Bowirrat

    (Department of Molecular Biology, Adelson School of Medicine, Ariel University, Ariel 40700, Israel)

  • Luis Llanos Gomez

    (The Kenneth Blum Behavioral & Neurogenetic Institute, Austin, TX 78701, USA)

  • David Baron

    (Graduate College, Western University Health Sciences, Pomona, CA 91766, USA)

  • Igor Elman

    (Center for Pain and the Brain (P.A.I.N Group), Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care & Pain Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
    Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA)

  • John Giordano

    (South Beach Detox & Treatment Center, North Miami Beach, FL 33169, USA)

  • Rehan Jalali

    (The Kenneth Blum Behavioral & Neurogenetic Institute, Austin, TX 78701, USA
    Department of Precision Behavioral Management, Geneus Health, San Antonio, TX 78249, USA)

  • Rajendra D. Badgaiyan

    (Department of Psychiatry, South Texas Veteran Health Care System, Audie L. Murphy Memorial VA Hospital, Long School of Medicine, University of Texas Medical Center, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA)

  • Edward J. Modestino

    (Department of Psychology, Curry College, Milton, MA 02186, USA)

  • Mark S. Gold

    (Department of Psychiatry, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA)

  • Eric R. Braverman

    (The Kenneth Blum Behavioral & Neurogenetic Institute, Austin, TX 78701, USA)

  • Anish Bajaj

    (Bajaj Chiropractic, New York, NY 10010, USA)

  • Kenneth Blum

    (The Kenneth Blum Behavioral & Neurogenetic Institute, Austin, TX 78701, USA
    Graduate College, Western University Health Sciences, Pomona, CA 91766, USA
    Department of Precision Behavioral Management, Geneus Health, San Antonio, TX 78249, USA
    Institute of Psychology, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Egyetem tér 1-3, 1053 Budapest, Hungary)

Abstract

In the United States, amid the opioid overdose epidemic, nonaddicting/nonpharmacological proven strategies are available to treat pain and manage chronic pain effectively without opioids. Evidence supporting the long-term use of opioids for pain is lacking, as is the will to alter the drug-embracing culture in American chronic pain management. Some pain clinicians seem to prefer classical analgesic agents that promote unwanted tolerance to analgesics and subsequent biological induction of the “addictive brain”. Reward genes play a vital part in modulation of nociception and adaptations in the dopaminergic circuitry. They may affect various sensory and affective components of the chronic pain syndromes. The Genetic Addiction Risk Severity (GARS) test coupled with the H-Wave at entry in pain clinics could attenuate pain and help prevent addiction. The GARS test results identify high-risk for both drug and alcohol, and H-Wave can be initiated to treat pain instead of opioids. The utilization of H-Wave to aid in pain reduction and mitigation of hedonic addictive behaviors is recommended, notwithstanding required randomized control studies. This frontline approach would reduce the possibility of long-term neurobiological deficits and fatalities associated with potent opioid analgesics.

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  • Ashim Gupta & Abdalla Bowirrat & Luis Llanos Gomez & David Baron & Igor Elman & John Giordano & Rehan Jalali & Rajendra D. Badgaiyan & Edward J. Modestino & Mark S. Gold & Eric R. Braverman & Anish Ba, 2022. "Hypothesizing in the Face of the Opioid Crisis Coupling Genetic Addiction Risk Severity (GARS) Testing with Electrotherapeutic Nonopioid Modalities Such as H-Wave Could Attenuate Both Pain and Hedonic," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(1), pages 1-12, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:19:y:2022:i:1:p:552-:d:717670
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