“What you don’t understand and what the country has forgotten is that 10 to 11 percent of America is in chronic pain,” he explained. He says that group was dealt a blow in 2015 when the state legislature passed a bill that closed 308 certified pain clinics in one day. “That put 120,000 people on the streets with nowhere to go because the law designated that only pain specialists could treat them, and there were only 63 of them living in Tennessee at the time, and their offices were full and not taking new patients,” according to Rudolph.
