StockGuru Blog: Assured Pharmacy – Chronic Pain: An Undeserved Expanding Market
Assured Pharmacy - APHY - Stock Guru Profile CHRONIC PAIN - Undeserved Expanding Market Chronic Pain is pervasive in our society and unfortunately represents a growth industry. Morphine continues to be the Army’s most commonly used painkilling drug. In Newsweek’s recent cover story on Chronic Pain Lt. Col. Chester (Trip) Buckenmaier, an anesthesiologist at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, noted that more than 90 percent of wounded soldiers have made it off the battlefield—the highest survival rate in American history—only to overwhelm chronic-pain clinics when they come home. He stated, “We’re seeing the tip of a tidal wave of pain.”…