1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (832+ words) Close your eyes. Go back to the worst pain you have ever known. A broken bone. A car wreck. Surgery. Childbirth without relief. Stay there for fifteen seconds." Feel the desperation. The begging. The need for it to stop. Now…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago  (398+ words) Some pain sufferers firmly believe that cannabis can help boost the pain relieving effects of prescription opioids. The evidence behind that belief is mostly anecdotal, but some new research lends some credence to it. In studies on laboratory rats, researchers…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (665+ words) A new study has found what many chronic pain patients have already learned the hard way: It's difficult to get a diagnosis. Researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) estimate that 21 million Americans living with severe pain have…...

2+ week, 12+ hour ago  (807+ words) There's a simple reason the narrative around the "opioid crisis" falls apart when you actually look at the overdose data. Because the data doesn't show what they claim it shows." And that false narrative has been retrofitted to cover the…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (744+ words) Chronic pain patients in the U. S. who are curious about trying medical marijuana are often turned off by the cost. Depending on where they live and how much legal marijuana is taxed, an ounce of medium-quality cannabis costs about $250; a one-ounce…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (997+ words) In a 2026 study I conducted with colleagues on people with peripheral arterial disease, one participant described how leg pain had disrupted his golf for years. It forced him to stop mid-round, shake his leg and apologise to his playing partners…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (487+ words) By Dr. Forest Tennant In the 1970s, when I first started treating intractable pain, my first cases were the bone pain of metastatic cancer, usually melanoma, breast, or prostate cancer. In those days, chemotherapy and radiation were just hopeful treatments, so…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (1259+ words) Doctors, policymakers, journalists, and pain experts endlessly warn about the risk of overdose from long term opioid therapy. But almost nobody talks about the risk of suicide from untreated pain. Why is this being ignored? Swept under the rug? Refusing…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (616+ words) For many patients with a chronic illness, every time they go to the doctor they have to fill out the infamous depression questionnaire " even if the reason for their visit has absolutely nothing to do with their mental health. Formally…...

4+ week, 11+ hour ago  (718+ words) Older Americans increasingly identify as cannabis consumers, with about 6% saying they've used cannabis products in the past year. That percentage is likely to increase due to the long-awaited federal legalization of medical marijuana." A new study helps explain why older…...