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A research report evaluating pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic pain management therapies found that 1 in 4 persons with chronic pain used only pharmacologic interventions to manage their pain, despite recommendations to increase use of nonpharmacologic alternatives. According to the authors, these findings highlight opportunities to increase nonpharmacologic therapy use among a variety of persons with chronic pain in the United States. The report is published in Annals of Internal Medicine.