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Inspired by his wife’s battle with Crohn’s disease and the accompanying pain she is forced to live with, Ken McKim has become a dedicated advocate for people in chronic pain. On his website Don’t Punish Pain, he explains how his wife’s challenges have caused him to realize that many in our society have lost their capacity to have compassion for people who are chronically ill.

Ken says that he made this video “to help raise awareness of the challenges that the chronically ill face every day; from society’s changing attitudes towards the chronically ill, to the overly-dramatized reporting of opioid overdoses in the United States. The video also highlights the then pending, now final, rule-making by the DEA to reclassify all medications containing Hydrocodone from Schedule 3 to Schedule 2, thus making them harder to access for millions of chronically ill people in the United States.”

