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The People's Pharmacy

Show 1021: If You Are in Pain, You Are Not Alone!

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5934 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2016

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Chronic pain is often invisible, but it undermines the quality of life of a hundred million Americans. Many of these people face a terrible dilemma: without medication, they suffer dreadfully. But if they use narcotics to control chronic pain, they may be treated with suspicion or disdain. Measures designed to reduce drug abuse put many […]

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0:00.0

Hi, I'm Joe Graydon.

0:01.9

And I'm Terry Graydon.

0:03.0

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0:09.0

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0:12.8

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0:17.3

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0:27.6

A hundred million Americans suffer chronic pain.

0:33.7

Current treatments are often inadequate.

0:36.1

Is there anything that can give them relief?

0:38.7

This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.

0:46.7

The media has directed a lot of attention to opioid abuse

0:52.7

and the epidemic of overdose deaths that result

0:55.3

from prescription medications like oxycodone, as well as illegal drugs such as heroin.

1:01.4

There's been far less interest in the dilemma of people who suffer chronic pain and have

1:06.0

great difficulty finding respite from their agony.

1:08.8

Are there other options to controlling chronic pain besides inseds and narcotics?

1:15.6

Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, we explore a nation in pain, healing our biggest health problem.

1:23.9

First, the News.

1:28.5

In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines,

1:32.1

the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are warning pregnant Americans

1:36.2

not to travel to Caribbean and South American regions where mosquitoes carry Zika virus.

1:42.6

In addition to Puerto Rico, the alert warns about travel to Brazil, Colombia, El Salvador,

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