Use of opioids is a problem in the U.S. Patients ordinarily do not want to take pain medication unless they have pain, which presents an important and overlooked question: Why are so many patients having so much pain? Patients have too much pain, both physical and mental, because chronic infections are not being diagnosed; and patients are treated symptomatically. Patients in pain often have undiagnosed or untreated chronic infection, gastrointestinal disease, and other complex medical problems. They often have mental…..