Healing Our Biggest Health Problem: Chronic Pain

By Joseph Cooper,

Published April 20, 2015 at 1:00 PM EDT

04/20/15 - 100 million adult Americans live with chronic pain. They are desperate for relief, yet would-be doctors are seldom educated about the subject.

Join us for Monday’s Topical Currents when we visit with journalist Judy Foreman. She’s written A NATION IN PAIN: Healing Our Biggest Health Problem. Culture wars over prescription painkillers play into the dilemma. Learn more . . . on Topical Currents Monday, at 1pm. (This program is a re-broadcast from April 2014.)

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