How Do You Know If a Patient's Pain Is Real Or If They Are Drug Seeking?

Unfortunately there are few tools to objectively measure a patient's pain to know whether it is legitimate or if the patient is faking. Usually, patients are asked to give a pain score on the Visual Analog Scale which is pain on a scale of 0 to 10. There is also a scale which uses facial expressions for pain severity, which is great for children.

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