Addiction medicine = pain management?

Not at all!: Addiction medicine is focused on caring for patients with addictive diseases. Pain management is focused on caring for patients with pain. They overlap when an addict also has pain. People are more complicated than our artificial divisions of expertise.

No: Two completely different specialities but closely connected. Addiction does not only mean to pain medications.

No but: The addiction specialist os often better prepared to address pain regimens that are not optimal.

No. : A lot of people become addicted to opiods because if a pain issue, but pain management or pain clinics are very different than people who treat addictions. We try to heal the illness that makes the patient an addict, not just prescribe pain meds. It's a lot of work, for the patient and the provider.

For what: If you are addicted to pain medications see an addiction specialist. If you have pain see a pain management specialist.

Depends: What are you trying to treat. These are two different medical specialties with some overlap.