Patients' Perspective

One out of six households in America contains a member with severe, intractable pain.¹ Unfortunately, most of these patients go undertreated because healthcare providers do not provide adequate amounts of opioids to relieve their pain.

Ironically, some patients also perpetuate their own undertreatment of pain because they:

• don’t always report their pain to their doctor^2-4
• are reluctant to take opioids for intractable pain treatment^2,3,5

Whether patients report their pain or not, however, undertreatment of pain is usually inevitable. Eventually, unrelieved pain patients may head into a downward spiral of depression^4-8 and, perhaps, begin to consider suicide.^4,5,9,10

The New Paradigm creates a new transition in thought that educates patients about pain treatment, empowers patients to seek appropriate relief, and helps patients avoid depression and thoughts of suicide.