Chronic Pain and HIV (eBook)

Jessica S. Merlin, MD, MBA, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Division of Gerontology, Geriatrics, and Palliative Care, University of Alabama at Birmingham. Peter Selwyn, MD, MPH, Professor, Department of Family and Social Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Glenn Treisman, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Angela G. Giovanniello, PharmD, AAHIVP, Department of Family and Social Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine.

Foreword vii

About the editors ix

List of contributors xi

1 Epidemiology of chronic pain in HIV-infected individuals 1

2 Pathophysiology of chronic pain in individuals with HIV 7

3 Chronic pain assessment, diagnostic testing, and management, with an emphasis on communication about these topics to individuals with HIV 16

4 HIV and chronic pain: musculoskeletal pain 27

5 Headache in HIV 38

6 HIV and peripheral neuropathy 51

7 Common medical comorbid conditions and chronic pain in HIV 63

8 Psychiatric comorbidities among individuals with HIV and chronic pain 71

9 Comorbid substance use among persons with HIV and chronic pain 78

10 Pharmacologic and Non-Pharmacologic treatment approaches to chronic pain in individuals with HIV 97

11 Potential benefits and harms of prescription opioids in HIV 113

12 Safer opioid prescribing in HIV-infected patients with chronic pain 123

13 The "difficult patient" with HIV and chronic pain, 137

14 HIV-related pain in low- and middle-income countries with reference to sub-Saharan Africa 150

15 Pain at the end of life in individuals with AIDS 157

16 Disparities and barriers in management of chronic pain among vulnerable populations with HIV infection 165

Index 177

"This book provides an excellent summary of the current literature on advances in the
treatment of pain associated with HIV. Although a number of
books address HIV/AIDS or pain management, Chronic Pain
and HIV: A Practical Approach achieves the objective of addressing pain management in the context of patients with HIV...I believe this book should be required reading for every
pain physician, researcher, resident, certainly every medical
student, and even patients with HIV-related pain." (Anesthesia & Analgesia journal June 2017)