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This CDC analysis used the 2019–2021 National Health Interview Survey to estimate how common chronic pain is among U.S. adults. In 2021, about 20.9% of adults (51.6 million people) reported pain on most days or every day for the past three months. About 6.9% (17.1 million people) had high-impact chronic…
In 2001 Portugal stopped treating small-scale drug possession as a criminal crime and moved to a health-led system that uses local panels, treatment offers, and harm-reduction services. Since then drug-related deaths fell and have stayed well below the EU average, fewer people are imprisoned for drug offences, HIV cases linked…
