CHRONIC PAIN

Wallis, Claudia (2005) The right and wrong way to treat pain, TIME, 2/28, 45-47.

An anonymous medical doctor who is both a pain sufferer and MD states that her field of practioners is annoyed with those afflicted with pain. They are also fearful that giving narcotics could have the DEA hovering over their practice. Thus, there is a potential for loss of license.

If you need pain meds, you also may need the right exercise and perhaps emotional psychotherapy and physical therapy. Using numerous strategies that compliment each other is the best way out of pain.