Pain is also at the core of what Scherrer sees as two interrelated epidemics: the epidemic of chronic pain, affecting some 116 million people in the United States, and the opioid epidemic that results from the misuse of powerful and often addictive pain-relieving drugs.
Xanuunku sidoo kale wuxuu udub dhexaad u yahay waxa Dr. Scherrer uu u arko inay yihiin laba cudur oo faafa oo isku dhafan: faafida xanuunka joogtada ah, ee saameynaya qaar ka mid ah 116 milyan oo Mareykan ah, iyo cudurka opioid ee ka dhasha isticmaalka xun ee daroogada xoogga leh iyo inta badan balwadaha si loo daaweeyo.