Pain is undertreated in this country. The Institute of Medicine released its report on chronic pain on June 11^th of this year. In it, they stated that 116 million Americans suffer from chronic pain, a third of the population. This excluded children, chronic care facility patients and military personnel. The prevalence of chronic pain will increase as the population at large gets older. Millions of chronic pain sufferers are undertreated. Why then shouldn’t we have a medication on the market...