Albuquerque health partners gave me nothing but bad traditional therapies (opiates only). Then their pain specialist ordered a dry prick trigger point therapy. He wanted to do seven points and I went unconscious at spot 4, for the pain was the most intense I've ever felt. 5x worse than breaking my back in the first place. Afterward, they sent me out to drive a car still queazy. Numerous of his traditional therapies were ineffective for my issue. Then the next visit I asked him to be my specialist for my mmj paperwork, he said "mmj has zero clinical effect for chronic pain, there are no medical studies which prove its effectiveness." then he threatened to call the police to have me removed from his office as "all I wanted is pot." he wouldnt even talk to me after i asked him for a mmj signature, even when i asked what he would suggest instead. STAY AWAY from Michael Malizzo and the center for pain and spine run by Albuquerque health partners. I got my specialist signature from Albuquerque integrative health, they are compassionate and understanding (you still need your primary docs signature). Once again STAY AWAY from Michael Malizzo (he is a quack who should lose his license until he respects his patients) and ABQ health partners they don't care about patients and just push pharma dope on people and are VERY ignorant of recent advances that compliment opiates, etc (mmj)