Read this article from The Gloucester Times to discover just how much chronic pain has been undertreated by the medical community.

Research indicates that unrelenting pain is the second leading cause of medically-related absenteeism at work, and costs $100 billion a year in lost productivity. Many patients surveyed by the panel consider their pain disabling, and chronic pain is linked to job loss, depression and even suicide. In fact, Dr. Oaklander said one of the greatest fears that many cancer patients face after their diagnosis is the specter of unrelieved pain.

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