Blog Category: Pain

If you or someone you love is struggling with opioid addiction, having Naloxone on hand and knowing how to administer it can save lives. We've compiled some helpful tools for and guides that may help save the life of someone you care about.

See highly-technical and animated 3D renderings of how the body processes pain signals, and how the signals are blocked by opioids and other drugs of abuse.

Understand how, when, and where drugs of abuse affect the brain. Professor Mark Gold, MD, winner of ASAM's Annual Lifetime Achievement Award, takes learners on an augmented reality tour of the brain and how it responds to opioids and other commonly abused drugs.

Understand how, when, and where drugs of abuse affect the brain. Professor Mark Gold, MD, winner of ASAM's Annual Lifetime Achievement Award, takes learners on an augmented reality tour of the brain and how it responds to opioids and other commonly abused drugs.

According to a report published in Current Biology, reduced pain perception while being distracted from pain is an everyday example of how cognitive processes can interfere with pain perception. Researchers from the University Medical Center, Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany, using high-resolution …

A study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine evaluated the clinical impact of telephone-delivered cognitive behavioral therapy (TCBT), exercise, or a combined intervention in primary care patients with chronic widespread pain (CWP).

442 patients with CWP (American College of …

A presentation at the “Pain In Europe“, 7th Congress of the European Federation of International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) Chapters in Hamburg, Germany reported yesterday that “psychological interventions can mitigate chronic pain, improve the patients’ …