Chronic untreated pain is debilitating, it dramatically affects a patient’s ability to participate in regular routines and in some cases takes away their will to live. Tragically, many people are suffering chronic pain unnecessarily. This in part, due to them not being made aware of the importance of pain management and being shown the simple tools needed to achieve it. Lack of knowledge regarding the benefits and side effects of available medication is also a factor. Many patients subordinate morphine and methadone with drug addiction and are unwilling to take it due to their belief that it will cause them to become “high” or sedated, this and their attempts to brave down the pain, results in their pain spirally out of control. This could be prevented if they were informed that degenerative pain effectively “uses up” medication and that these drugs when taken for the relief of pain associated with cancer, can dramatically reduce both the occurrence and intensity of pain, without causing sedation.