Break Free of by Kathleen Barnes A
ccording to the National Center for Health Statis- tics, 25 percent of Americans, or 76.2 million, are suffering from pain that lasts more than 24 hours at
this very moment: Ouch! Lower back pain alone keeps Americans from going to
work a total of 149 million days each year, costing the U.S. economy $100 to $200 billion, reports the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Other common types of chronic pain affect musculoskeletal
tissues, knees, hips or the neck. Migraines and severe head- aches plague 16.6 percent of adults over 18, per a National Health and Nutrition Survey. Neurological discomfort can reach as high as 12.4 percent, estimates a study from the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minnesota. Even visceral or organ pain associated with heart disease, cancer and pelvic diseases occur in at least 20 percent of the global population, according to the Interna- tional Association for the Study of Pain, in Seattle. If chronic pain is affecting you, you feel it and want
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CHRONIC PAIN
Natural Ways to Feel Much Better
Watch Out for Opioids Unfortunately, conventional medicine often has little to offer most pain patients. Even for something as pervasive as back pain, surgery and steroid injections are usually an unsat- isfactory fi rst line of defense, having mixed results at best, seconded by prescriptions for addictive opioid painkillers. Dr. Nora D. Vokov, director of the National Institute of
Drug Abuse, told the U.S. Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control in 2014 that there were an estimated 2.1 million people in the U.S. suffering from substance abuse disorders related to prescription opioid pain relievers in 2012. The problem is worsening. Every day, 1,000 people are treated in emergency rooms for misusing prescription opioids, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Go Natural for Effective Relief Such statistics expose the magnitude of the problem of chronic pain. “It’s daunting, but there are many natural ways to
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