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Empowered Patients, Better Outcomes: Cultivating Strong Provider Relationships
Effectively managing chronic pain goes beyond medication and therapy—it's fundamentally about the relationship between...
Seeking Out Mental Health Care: A Step-By-Step Guide
The areas of the brain that experience pain and emotion are interconnected. It's only natural—and expected—for...
GENDER-BASED HEALTH STIGMAS CAN EXACT EVEN HIGHER TOLL ON BIPOC MEN
“[Many] men reach a certain age and say, ‘I ain’t never going to the doctor,’” says New Orleans-based Eric Griggs, MD,...
WHEN MENTAL HEALTH AND PHYSICAL PAIN COINCIDE, CERTAIN POPULATIONS ARE HIT HARDER
The tie between physical pain and mental illness can feel like a never-ending and inseparable cycle, with pain causing...
OPIOID RESTRICTIONS LEAVE BIPOC BEHIND: A LOOK AT THE 2016 CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINE FOR PRESCRIBING OPIOIDS, THE RECENT DRAFT UPDATE, AND THE DISPARITIES THAT REMAIN
Ethleen Peacock was born in Sierra Leone, a country in West Africa, with sickle cell disease—a disorder in which red...
SSDI EASES FINANCIAL BURDENS WHEN YOU CAN’T WORK —HERE’S HOW TO NAVIGATE IT
One of the most significant stressors experienced by those living with debilitating chronic pain is how to pay for the...
WOMEN’S PAIN IS WIDESPREAD, BUT RESEARCH LAGS AND DISBELIEF ABOUNDS
For as long as she can remember, Claudia King has experienced pain with urination as well as pain during and after...
MAKING OVER-THE-COUNTER MEDICATIONS MORE ACCESSIBLE
For the more than 50 million Americans who live with chronic pain, over-the-counter (OTC) pain relievers may be right...
Join U.S. Pain Foundation as we tell Congress that Pain Care Needs More Options – Virtual Advocacy Day 2022
Millions of people with chronic pain have been tapered off of opioid medications and not offered other...
U.S. Pain Foundation’s Docket Comments to the FDA on the Development of Non-Opioid Analgesics for Acute Pain
The U.S. Pain Foundation recently submitted comments to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in response to its...
U.S. Pain Foundation’s Comments on the 2022 Revised Draft CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids
Note: The following has been submitted to the CDC in response to the Revised Draft CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for...