Pain is a multidimensional experience that involves interacting sensory, cognitive, and
affective factors, rendering the treatment of chronic pain challenging and financially …

A socially patterned epidemic of deaths of despair is a signal feature of American society in
the twenty-first century, involving rising mortality from substance use disorders and self-harm …

Stigma as a fundamental hindrance to the United States opioid overdose crisis response |
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Blockchain technology alleviates the reliance on a centralized authority to certify information
integrity and ownership, as well as mediate transactions and exchange of digital assets …

Background: Opioid use, abuse, and adverse consequences, including death, have
escalated at an alarming rate since the 1990s. In an attempt to control opioid abuse …

Prescription drug abuse is a growing problem nationally. In an effort to curb this problem,
emergency physicians might rely on subjective cues such as race-ethnicity, often …

The prevalence of opioid use and misuse has provoked a staggering number of deaths over
the past two and a half decades. Much attention has focused on individual risks according to …

Importance Chronic noncancer pain (hereafter referred to aschronic pain) is common among
older adults and managed frequently with pharmacotherapies that produce suboptimal …

Patients receiving long-term opioid therapy for chronic pain and interested in tapering their
opioid dose were randomly assigned to a 22-week taper support intervention (psychiatric …

The advent of neuroimaging methodologies, such as functional magnetic resonance
imaging (fMRI), has significantly advanced our understanding of the neurophysiological …