Live from the Institute for Functional Medicine Annual International Conference 2019

How healing works

How do we get from healthcare to health and wellbeing, asked Wayne Jonas, MD, at the 2019 Institute for Functional Medicine Annual International Conference in San Antonio, Texas?

Opioid prescriptions have increased by 60 percent from 2000 to 2010, Jonas said. Opioid-related deaths topped 60,000 in 2017, and 11.8 Americans misused opioids.

“We need to start asking, where is the value in health,” said Jonas. “We are not facing an opioid problem. We are facing a chronic pain mismanagement problem.”

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