Accounting for pain beyond opioids

By Michael Wolfson Comments Off on Accounting for pain beyond opioids arthritis, biological mechanisms, chronic pain, opioids, pain, pain is not a disease, risk factors, subjective pain

It’s time to change what we measure when funding healthcare   The prestigious Canadian Academy of Health Sciences annual meeting last week in Vancouver focused on chronic pain, and of course, the current catastrophe of opioid deaths was discussed.  But most of the discussion was broader: What are the biological mechanisms underlying chronic pain? What […]