So far 2020 is shaping up to be the worst year most of us can remember.  For those of us suffering with severe and unrelenting pain maybe it doesn’t make as much of a difference – every month and every day can be tormenting. But every November for the past couple hundred years (and at…

This month we were blessed to tour Set Free Alaska’s new Compass residential substance abuse rehabilitation center for men in Homer. This sixteen-bed facility opened on August 17, expanding the existing outpatient treatment center (closer to town center) opened earlier this year. The Compass Program allows men to work in the house, cook meals, and…

This month, we are privileged to post some thoughts from Dr. McAnally’s ‘s friend and collaborator on various projects (including the Beyond Pain website), Ya’akov Ben-Adir. Courtesy of WikiImages “…keeps on turnin’ – I don’t know where I’ll be tomorrow…” announces one of my favorite bands. I don’t know enough about physics (let alone astrophysics)…

You’ll see two new faces up front this summer at NAPM; introducing Mrs. Virginia Warren and Ms. Kylee Nicholas, who we’ll let tell their own story briefly below. Katrina and Theresa have moved away from “the front lines” as many of you know already; Katrina is focusing full time now on her practice of Traditional…

Like many of you I’m sure, I have been overwhelmed with competing emotions over the past several months, many of which have to do with COVID-19. Honestly though I’d say at the forefront of these for me has been gratitude – for myself and my family, but also for our community and state. Alaska has…

Photo by Allie on Unsplash So, it seems as though we’ve been fast-forwarded into the Jetsons age (or Star Trek) in some ways by COVID-19. Telemedicine appears to be here to stay for the near future, and many experts are predicting it will stick around even once this crisis has passed. There wasn’t a functional…