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Sickle Cell Disease: Severe Pain Often Goes Untreated

Recently, we have discussed articles in the scientific literature that have raised concerns that prescription pain medications are at times being misused, if not abused.

 

A recent article in the Annals of Internal Medicine reminds us that there are a lot of folks out there who are quietly suffering through their pain, and who perhaps are not being treated adequately for that pain.

 

The article dealt with the pain of sickle cell disease, a genetic red blood cell disorder that most often...

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