Despite Three Months of Pain Treatment One in Three Patients Sti

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Despite treatment efforts, chronic pain management is failing one in three patients suffering from severe chronic pain, and three in five patients feel moderately or extremely anxious or depressed as a result of their pain. Whilst eight in ten chronic pain patients are taking prescription medication, one in two of these patients are suffering the additional burden of side effects. These are the findings released today from the interim data from PainSTORY (Pain Study Tracking Ongoing Responses for Year), the first survey of its kind to provide in-depth insight into how chronic pain impacts the lives of patients over one year in 13 European countries.

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