Dr. Patrick Joseph Frawley MD
Pain Management Specialist | Pain Medicine
525 E Micheltorena St Suite 107 Santa Barbara CA, 93103Rating
4/5
About
Dr. Patrick Frawley practices Pain Medicine in Santa Barbara, CA. Pain medicine is concerned with the prevention of pain, and the evaluation, treatment, and rehabilitation of patients experiencing pain. Pain medicine physicians use a broad-based approach to treat all pain disorders, ranging from pain as a symptom of disease to pain as the primary disease. Dr. Frawley serves as a consultant to other physicians but is often the principal treating physician, providing care at various levels; such as treating the patient directly, prescribing medication, prescribing rehabilitative services, performing pain relieving procedures, counseling patients and families, directing a multidisciplinary team, coordinating care with other healthcare providers, and providing consultative services.
Education and Training
Univ of Southern Ca Sch of Med, Los Angeles Ca 1976
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California 1976
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Alcoholism in relatives of primary cocaine-dependent patients.
- One-year follow-up after multimodal inpatient treatment for cocaine and methamphetamine dependencies.
- Environmental risks to be considered in substance user treatment planning, implementation, and assessment.
- Six- and twelve-month abstinence rates in inpatient alcoholics treated with aversion therapy compared with matched inpatients from a treatment registry.
- Research on alcohol abuse.
- Alcohol and other drug dependence among latinos.
- Long-term abstinence from alcohol in patients receiving aversion therapy as part of a multimodal inpatient program.
- Chemical aversion therapy in the treatment of cocaine dependence as part of a multimodal treatment program: treatment outcome.
- The stability of coexisting psychiatric syndromes in alcoholic men after one year.
- The validity of self-report data.
- The personal perspective on the disease concept.
- New agenda for medicine.
- Prospective study of alcoholism treatment. Eight-year follow-up.
- Treatment outcome of 600 chemically dependent patients treated in a multimodal inpatient program including aversion therapy and pentothal interviews.
- Six- and twelve-month abstinence rates in inpatient alcoholics treated with either faradic aversion or chemical aversion compared with matched inpatients from a treatment registry.
Treatments
- Anxiety
- Chronic Pain
- Actinic Keratosis
- Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (ptsd)
- Pain
- Opiate Dependence
- Insomnia
- Adjustment Disorder
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