chronic pain

Can anyone explain to me why opiod addiction is more important than chronic pain? As a chronic pain sufferer, I am very frustrated by the opposition to cannibis and opiod pain medications. People like me are not even usually mentioned in the news articles. Why?

How should medical science evaluate subjective patient evaluations of pain reduction? - Are we any closer to being able to say whether this has a physiological or psychological root - or is it a false dichotomy to separate psychological from psyiological at all.....? Or are evaluations of pain...

This peer-reviewed study appeared in the latest issue of the Journal of Psychosomatic Research 2006:60(1):59-61. From the paper itself: Did any of our Aussie friends happen to see this televised test? I have a pdf of the study for those who might be interested. PM an email address and...