100 Million Americans Have Chronic Pain

According to Web MD - June 29, 2011 -- More than 100 million Americans suffer from chronic pain at a cost of around $600 billion a year in medical treatments and lost productivity, according to a report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM).

An IOM committee commissioned by Congress concluded that pain is not optimally managed in the U.S. and that effective treatment of chronic pain will require a coordinated national effort to transform how the public, policy makers, and health care providers view the condition.

The report included recommendations for achieving what the committee referred to as a "cultural transformation" in how Americans understand and approach pain management and prevention.

"We see that for many patients chronic pain becomes a disease in its own right," committee chair Phillip Pizzo, MD, of Stanford University School of Medicine, said at a Wednesday news briefing. "We need to address this in a more comprehensive and interdisciplinary way and include prevention as a very important goal. " New Study Shows That Pain Costs Billions of Dollars a Year in U.S."

Cedric Houston

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