Trauma, pain, and addiction fuel a vicious cycle of suffering. Discover how to use mindfulness and reappraisal to restore ...

Addiction is not simply a chronic brain disease and considering it as such can limit treatment options and increase stigma, an extensive research review suggests. After decades of research, Professor ...

Living with chronic pain is a challenge affecting millions of people daily. From back pain to arthritis, fibromyalgia to migraines, finding relief often requires a multifaceted approach. One of the ...

July 11 (UPI) --While scientists have long noted a complex connection between a person's addiction to opiates, or "opioid use disorder," and chronic pain, the brain mechanisms linking the two have ...

Nearly 1 in every 10 chronic pain patients treated with prescription opioids winds up addicted to the painkillers at some point, a new review finds. Further, nearly 1 in 3 will show symptoms of opioid ...

Germany: Higher Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI) scores were positively correlated with addictive behaviors, suggesting ...

A modified form of Botox could give long-term pain relief to patients with chronic nerve injury pain, according to a new study. A team of scientists from the Universities of Sheffield, Reading and ...

In March 2016, legislative bodies in Maine put a bill forward to combat the state’s rising opioid addiction problem. New restrictions on opioids for chronic pain require doctors to limit prescriptions ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) – “When I was on pain meds and in pain all the time, you’re going through hell, and you are really just trying to make it sometimes, one hour at a time,” said Eric Bumpus, a 43-year-old ...

KXAN’s Jose Torres shares the story of 43-year-old Eric Bumpus, husband and father of two. Bumpus reflects on five years of living with an addiction to pain pills. He shared when he was on pain meds ...

Re “The Other Victims of the Opioid Crisis,” by Maia Szalavitz (Opinion guest essay, Sunday Review, March 13): Thank God someone is finally addressing these draconian, though well-intentioned, ...

“This randomized controlled trial shows that a smoking intervention based on chronic disease management principles of care […] is approximately 75% more effective at accomplishing long-term abstinence ...