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The Global Pain Crisis: What Everyone Needs to Know(r)
Contributor(s): Foreman, Judy (Author)
ISBN: 019025923X     ISBN-13: 9780190259235
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
OUR PRICE:   $16.10  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: April 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Medical | Neurology
- Medical | Diseases
Dewey: 616.047
LCCN: 2016032534
Series: What Everyone Needs to Know (Paperback)
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (1.00 lbs) 400 pages
 
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Tens of millions of people around the world live with chronic pain - many in such severe pain they are disabled by it. The Institute of Medicine estimates that chronic pain costs the U.S. alone $560 to $635 billion a year in direct medical costs and lost productivity. Morphine, an effective
painkiller, costs only three cents a dose, yet because of excessive regulation in many countries, it is unavailable to millions of people who need it, even at the end of life. The World Health Organization notes that in addition to the one million end-stage AIDS/HIV patients who can't get morphine
and other controlled medications, 5.5 million terminal cancer patients, nearly a million people suffering from accidents or violence, and an incalculable number of people living with chronic illnesses or recovering from surgery don't have access to it, either. Furthermore, women, children, older
people, and the poor are disproportionally affected by inadequate pain relief. Physicians know almost nothing about chronic pain, much less how to treat it, for two reasons: medical schools barely teach it and government institutions allot almost nothing to the pain research budget.

In The Global Pain Crisis: What Everyone Needs to Know(R), renowned health journalist Judy Foreman addresses the most important questions about chronic pain: what is it, whom does it affect most, which pain relief methods in Western and alternative medicine are effective, what are the risks and
benefits for opioids and marijuana, and how can the chronic pain crisis be resolved for good?

Foreman's book is a wake-up call for a health problem that affects people across the globe, from all walks of life. Written in the classic, easy-to-read and quick reference style of the What Everyone Needs to Know(R) series, The Global Pain Crisis is a must-read for anyone whose life or work is
affected by chronic pain.