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Failure to Treat Pain

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Treatment of Chronic Pain by Integrative Approaches

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Simply stated, there is an epidemic of undertreated pain, and it has been recognized as a major public health problem. The question that begs to be answered, candidly and definitively, is how such a state of affairs could have developed at the very time when advances in medical science and technology offer a wide variety of pharmacological and non-pharmacological measures for the management of pain. The problem of undertreated pain is complex, and therefore, so too must be any plausible explanation of it.

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  1. Department of Behavioral Medicine, The Pain Treatment Center of the Bluegrass, 2416 Regency Rd, Lexington, KY, 40503, USA

    Kenneth L. Kirsh Ph.D.

  2. Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, 641 Lexington Avenue, 7th Floor, New York, NY, 10022, USA

    Steven D. Passik Ph.D.

  3. School of Medicine Alumni Association Endowed Chair of Bioethics, University of California, Davis School of Medicine, 4150 V Street, Suite 2500, Sacramento, CA, 95817, USA

    Ben A. Rich JD, Ph.D.

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  1. President and CEO, Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology, The Center for Pain Relief, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Charleston, West Virginia, USA

    Timothy R. Deer

  2. Clinic Chief, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesiology, Stanford Pain Medicine Center, Redwood City, CA, USA, and Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA

    Michael S. Leong

  3. Medical Director, Clinical Associate Professor, The LITE Center, South Miami, FL, USA, and University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA

    Albert L. Ray

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Kirsh, K.L., Passik, S.D., Rich, B.A. (2015). Failure to Treat Pain. In: Deer, T., Leong, M., Ray, A. (eds) Treatment of Chronic Pain by Integrative Approaches. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1821-8_25

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