By Pat Anson Results from two new studies suggest that opioid pain medication is useful for treating short-term acute pain, but the benefits decline when opioids are taken long term. In the first ...

By Crystal Lindell The University of Oklahoma has received a $3.4 million dollar federal grant to help Native Americans with ...

The University of Oklahoma has received a $3.4 million dollar federal grant to help Native Americans with chronic pain – and they’re going to spend all of it on an app. The money, which is coming from ...

By Jennifer Schlinger  Imagine your mom has just been discharged from the hospital to a rehabilitation center after hip replacement surgery. She has the paperwork, the facility’s address – and a long ...

By Madora Pennington I have an old knee injury. You probably have one, too.  Or maybe it’s your hip, ankle or elbow. ...

By Crystal Lindell Chronic pain patients are the most likely group to find discriminating and judgmental language in their medical records, according to a new study published in JAMA . The researchers ...

By Pat Anson The first clinical trials in the United States for a cannabis-based medicine for chronic pain are getting underway. New York State has authorized a clinical trial of VER-01 in patients ...

By Crystal Lindell It looks like the federal 7-OH ban is actually going to go through this time, and it’s probably going to ...

By Pat Anson The U.S. Drug Enforcement has amended its scheduling order for 7-hydroxymitragynine (7-OH), placing further restrictions on the manufacture, sale and possession of concentrated forms of ...

By Pat Anson Three U.S. Senators are calling on the FDA and DEA to regulate the “entire kratom plant” under the Controlled ...

By Crystal Lindell Ever since the Trump Administration announced on July 1 that it planned to make the kratom alkaloid 7-OH a Schedule One controlled drug , people like me who use it have been living ...

Difficulty in finding words – also known as “brain fog” -- started for me 30 years ago after I began taking the medication gabapentin for Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. While it initially proved to ...