about James C. Lai, MD

Take actionable steps to stabilize your relationship to drugs, and heal from damaging behavioral patterns to cope with pain.

Both medication and procedural interventions are important to address pain, but ultimately the path to freedom requires lifestyle change.

Some habits are hard to break, even when you know they are harmful. We offer strategies to empower you to make lasting change in your life. 

Nerve blocks and steroid injections are some of the methods used as part of the pain management regimen we create for our patients.

Knowledge is power in the fight against substance abuse. Understand the root cause of pain and how substance use can easily go wrong. 

Ease the  journey of recovery by engaging in understanding community through Chronic Pain Anonymous and similar meetings & programs.