Is there an international pain crisis?
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I like the big fat symbol on the map that indicates that americans use more opiates per capita than anyone else in the world. Yet there is claimed to be an epidemic of unrelieved pain in this country. Lots of other first world countries are a hell of a lot more stoic than here, especially the japanese.
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