American workers are increasingly experiencing a deadly combination of chronic pain and opioid addiction. According to the CDC, more than 1 in 5 Americans experienced chronic pain in 2021 alone: ...

The Opioid Risk Tool for Opioid Use Disorder may help identify patients with chronic noncancer pain at increased risk for OUD ...

Chronic pain might quietly push people toward developing high blood pressure—and the more widespread the pain, the greater the danger. A massive analysis of over 200,000 adults uncovered strong links ...

After developing chronic pain, I started looking into what scientists do — and still don’t — understand about the disease. Here is what I learned. By Jennifer Kahn Most of us don’t think about pain ...