A Nation in Pain: Healing Our Biggest Health Problem by Foreman, Judy New<-

A Nation in PainHealing Our Biggest Health Problem\nAuthor(s): Judy Foreman\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc, United States\nImprint: Oxford University Press Inc\nISBN-13: 9780190231798, 978-0190231798\nSynopsis\nOut of 238 million American adults, 100 million live with chronic pain. And yet the press has paid more attention to the abuses of pain medications than the astoundingly widespread condition they are intended to treat. Ethically, the failure to manage pain better is tantamount to torture. When chronic pain is inadequately treated, it undermines the body and mind. Indeed, the risk of suicide for people in chronic pain is twice that of other people. Far more than just a symptom, author Judy Foreman writes, chronic pain can be a disease in its own right--and it's the biggest health problem facing America today.\n\nPublished in partnership with the International Association for the Study of Pain, A Nation in Pain offers a sweeping, deeply researched acc.