Thereâs Big Money in Withholding Pain Relief

Under federal policy, pain is a public health challenge, even a global health priority.

Massive federal funds are earmarked for research seeking alternative pain treatments and shoring up unfounded links between prescribed opioids and opioid use disorder, overdoses, and deaths.

The fact that millions of law-abiding Americans suffer chronic and severe pain is clearly not news to our government.

An NIH publication admits that research focuses on “opioid use, misuse and addiction” with a “dearth of federal funding for studying interventional pain management” No alternative has yet shown effectiveness for pain that comes close to opioids.

Untreated pain affects endocrine, cardiovascular, immune, neurological, muscle, and skeletal function.