America Pays $722.8 Billion for Chronic Pain and Still Gets Care Wrong

who quietly absorbs another household task, or the patient who stops making plans because pain has made every promise uncertain. Money records part of the damage, yet it can’t describe the life being narrowed.

Chronic pain is hardly rare. In 2023, the CDC shared that 24.3% of U.S. adults reported pain on most days or every day during the previous three continue reading …