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Estimates of pain care treatment costs exceed $1 billion annually in the United States. Today at the American Academy of Pain Medicine’s 26th Annual Meeting two abstracts looked at the issue. One evaluated intrathecal drug delivery (a targeted medicine delivery system) that could save costs over time. The other analyzed the differences between the costs of treatment for chronic pain treatments…

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