Many American Adults Live With Chronic Pain

An analysis by Jae Kennedy, professor of health policy and administration at Washington State University Spokane, says that nearly one in five U.S. adults are in pain most every day for spells of three months or longer. The estimated 39 million adults in persistent pain outnumber the residents of California.Previous studies have said so much pain costs hundreds of billions of dollars a year in lost productivity and health care. And that doesn't take into account ...