Online: | |
Visits: | |
Stories: |
Story Views | |
Now: | |
Last Hour: | |
Last 24 Hours: | |
Total: |
Throughout the course of our lives we have all experienced pain. Whether due to injury or illness, we all have felt pain. But shocking numbers now reveal that over 25 million Americans suffer from chronic pain.
Of the 25 million, nearly 14 million reported experiencing severe pain in association with poor health and disability. The results were taken from a national survey.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) reports that more Americans are affected by pain than diabetes, cancer and heart disease combined, making it nearly an epidemic. Furthermore, chronic pain is the leading contributor to long-term disability.
Nah….I’d say there’s just more people attempting to be prescribed narcotics and opiates. Hey, whatever get’s ya through the day. They should legalize the $hit anyway. What gives them the right to say what people should or should not put into their own bodies anyhow?