Managing Pain Before it Manages You, Third Edition
Margaret A. Caudill, 2008
Explains practical ways to relieve pain by using social, mental, and nutritional methods rather than medication to decrease discomfort, depression, and anxiety. 

ACPA Medication Supplement 2008
Produced and updated annually by the American Chronic Pain Association to inform chronic pain sufferers about their medications. Download free PDF document. 

Truth about Chronic Pain: Patients and Professionals on How to Face It,  Understand It, Overcome It 
Arthur Rosenfeld, 2003 
Interviews with forty people provide insight into the medical, ethical, legal, and cultural aspects of chronic pain and highlight the need for better education, treatment, and understanding. 

Chronic Pain Solution: Your Personal Path to Pain Relief 
James N. Dillard & Leigh Ann Hirschman, 2003 
Outlines the major types of pain and the methods of treatment, including an integrative approach to pain relief. Also includes special chapters on children, pregnant women, and terminal pain, and how to help a loved one in pain.

Mayo Clinic on Chronic Pain

Jeffrey Rome (Editor), 2002

Focuses on the management of long-standing or recurrent pain. Discusses headaches, back pain, and arthritis. Includes the latest pain medications, role of spirituality, ways to cope, exercises, and more.

List of Resources for Helpful Reading

American Chronic Pain Association 

Pain Free for Women : The Revolutionary Program for Ending Chronic Pain

Pete Egoscue, 2003

Focuses on body alignment, posture and muscle engagement to restore pain free movement.