CHRONIC PAIN
 Chronic pain is a serious public health issue, affecting 75 million Americans.
Pain causes adult disability more than any other condition in the United States .
Pain costs the US economy $100 billion in lost productivity each year.
Chronic pain takes a physical, financial, and emotional toll on those who have pain and their family and friends.
The most common reason a person visits his or her primary care physician is pain.
Almost 42% of Americans report experiencing pain daily.
39% of people in pain say it affects their sleep and 43% say pain affects their mood.
For almost one-third of people living with pain, their chronic pain is so debilitating that they feel like they don’t function normally and sometimes feel so badly that they want to die.
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