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: ...

Patient-reported outcome measures and clinical scales were ineffective in predicting responses to full-agonist opioids for chronic pain.

Pain interference, but not severity, significantly predicted long-term mortality risk among middle-aged and older adults in the US.

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 ...