Current knowledge about mechanisms and interventions for pain has largely been derived
from samples that are healthier, wealthier, younger, and more likely to be White than the …

Decades of research advances have established a central role for endogenous opioid
systems in regulating reward processing, mood, motivation, learning and memory …

Importance Cognitive behavioral therapy for chronic pain (CBT-CP) is a safe and effective
alternative to opioid analgesics. Because CBT-CP requires multiple sessions and therapists …

Chronic pain is a common, costly, and consequential health problem. However, despite
some important analytic contributions, sociological research on pain has not yet coalesced …

Previous literature on race/ethnicity and pain has rarely included all major US racial groups
or examined the sensitivity of findings to different pain operationalizations. Using data from …

This study estimates the prevalence of prescription opioid use (POU) in the United States
(US) in 2019–2020, both in the general population and specifically among adults with pain …

This study examines how Americans' narratives of pain are connected to social inequalities
using more than 1,500 in-depth interviews collected as part of the American Voices Project …

Over the last two decades, cycling in Germany has increased by more than 40%. This paper
analyses how this overall increase is broken down by group, characterised by residence …

Objectives In recent years,'deaths of despair'due to drugs, alcohol and suicide have
contributed to rising mid-life mortality in the USA. We examine whether despair-related …

Deaths of despair, morbidity, and emotional distress continue to rise in the United States,
largely borne by those without a college degree—the majority of American adults—for many …