Too often persons suffering with chronic pain are treated as drug seekers and left without compassion when struggling to maintain control of pain levels. Instead of help many times they are sent on their way when they truly are experiencing the worst pain of their lives and it seems endless. There is a great lack of understanding of why chronic pain exists and why it is not resolved by the medical community within a timely manner. The current crackdown of the DEA on pain management doctors is causing tightened allowances for patients with uncontrolled pain and they are left to suffer alone without any support to help them get through the episode that has driven them to seek medical attention despite the clear message that emergency rooms will not help you and your primary care physician can not prescribe that level of opiates needed to regain control of the pain that is reducing quality of life so dramatically. This is a wide spread problem within the pain management community and insurance companies are making it difficult to afford to resolve or even maintain the disease of Chronic Pain.