We have a new article out that argues we must understand human pain as essentially social. This is because the survival value of pain for individual humans and for the species as a whole must be …
The Social Nature of Human Pain
Pain has an evolutionary history that helps us understand its survival value. For humans, this evolutionary history is centered around our powerful social capacities. Because these social capacities …
How working-class despair fuelled the opioid crisis
The Right to Pain Relief digs at the social roots of America’s addiction to painkillers. Read the full article. …
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UW Medicine Huddle Newsletter on The Right to Pain Relief
For centuries, doctors have debated the best way to help patients with chronic pain. Twenty years ago, opioids were the answer. These highly addictive medications mask pain by attaching to protein …
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Questioning the Right to Pain Relief and ItsRole in the Opioid Epidemic
Abstract The new discipline of palliative care helped to establish the right to pain relief at the end of life and the necessity of using opioids to achieve that goal. Professional pain …
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