The Sunday Read: ‘Can Virtual Reality Help Ease Chronic Pain?’ V.R. treatments may provide relief similar to intravenous opioids — a tantalizing prospect for the millions of Americans living with chronic pain.
Common Medications Can Prolong Back Pain, Study Says A clinical trial will be needed to verify the research, which offered a warning about taking steroids or nonprescription drugs to soothe aches that many experience.
Opioids, Chronic Pain and Addiction Readers respond to a guest essay by Maia Szalavitz about the opioid crisis. Also: The Republicans and the Ukraine war.
The Unknowability of Other People’s Pain While my father was alive, it was impossible for me to imagine his agony.