• One in four households has an adult sufferer of chronic pain.
• Chronic pain is the most common reason people visit their GP and chronic pain sufferers are thought to use the health services five times more often than the rest of the population.
• More than half of chronic pain sufferers are taking some form of prescription medicine. Twenty per cent of chronic pain sufferers have been in pain for 20 years.
• One in five sufferers of chronic pain has lost his/her job due to their condition.
• The average age of the chronic pain sufferer is 48.
