A nation in pain : healing our biggest health problem /

Out of 238 million American adults, 100 million live in chronic pain. When 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, chronic pain can be a disease in its own right-- the b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Foreman, Judy
Corporate Author:	International Association for the Study of Pain
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Subjects:	Chronic pain > United States. Chronic pain > Treatment > United States. Opioid abuse > United States > History. Pain > Alternative treatment. Chronic Pain. Opioid-Related Disorders. Medical Marijuana. Pain Management. Complementary Therapies. United States.

Table of Contents:

The enormity of the problem
What is pain, anyway?
The genetics of pain
Gender and pain
Children in pain
The mind-body in pain
Opioid wars, part I : the problem
Opioid wars, part II : proposed solutions
How the immune system cranks up pain
Marijuana : the weed America loves to hate
Beyond opioids, part I : western medicine
Beyond opioids, part II : complementary and alternative medicine
Exercise : the real magic bullet
The way forward.