HR 1863: National Pain Care Policy Act of 2003

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Over 75 million Americans suffer serious pain annually: 50 million of those endure serious chronic pain annually (pain lasting 6 months or more), and another 25 million experience acute pain (from injuries, accidents, surgeries, etc.). [National Pain Survey, conducted for Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical, 1999]

Headache, lower back pain, arthritis and other joint pain, and peripheral neuropathy are the most common forms of chronic pain. ["Pain in America," study sponsored by Mayday Fund, 1998]

Over 26 million adults experience frequent back pain and 2/3 of Americans will have back pain during their lifetime. [Dionne, C.E., "Low back pain," Epidemiology of Pain, (Seattle:IASP) 1999.]

1 in 6 Americans suffers from arthritis. [Lawrence, R.C., et al, "Estimates of the Prevalence of Arthritis and Selected Musculos-Skeletal Disorders in the United States," Arthritis and Rheumatism, 1998.]

Close to 4 million Americans -- mostly women -- suffer from fibromyalgia, a complex condition involving widespread pain and other symptoms.

The Gross Undertreatment of Pain in America A 1999 study, Chronic Pain in America, found that only 1 in 4 of those with pain received

adequate treatment. ["Chronic Pain in America," survey conducted for American Pain

Society, American Academy of Pain Medicine and Janssen Pharmaceutica, 1999.]

An estimated 70% of those with cancer experience significant pain during their illness, yet

in an early study of cancer pain fewer than half received adequate treatment for their pain.

[Grossman, S., et al, "Correlation of patient and caregiver ratings of cancer pain," Journal

of Pain and Symptom Management, 1991; and Von Roenn, et al, "Physician Attitude and

Practice in Cancer Pain Management," Annals of Internal Medicine, 15 July 1993 (119:2).

A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) of nursing home patients with cancer found that 24% of patients with significant pain received nothing stronger than aspirin.

Another study recently published in JAMA found that 41% of nursing home patients who were admitted with moderate to severe pain still had approximately the same level of pain 6 months later.

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