Research

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (the National Academies) is soliciting public comments to help inform the deliberations of a new consensus study committee.

The briefing will be held in cooperation with the Congressional Addition, Treatment and Recovery Caucus and take place Wednesday, February 27, from 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM in Washington, DC.

Dr. Katrina Poppert Cordts and colleagues developed and tested a model of parental factors that may affect the pain and psychological functioning of children with chronic pain.

This announcement from the NIH highlights a recent study compiling 20 years of data on pain and opioid use in the US.

BACPAC is part of the NIH HEAL (Helping to End Addiction Long-term) Initiative for which Congress has provided NIH with a separate funding allocation in 2018 and 2019.

Congressional briefing "Opportunities and Challenges in Cannabinoid Research" will be held Wednesday, February 27, 2019. Sponsored by The Friends of NIDA in cooperation with The Congressional Addiction, Treatment and Recover Caucus.

This article highlights recent studies showing how sleeplessness and insomnia contribute to pain, including acute pain thresholds.

Researchers are pointing to an under-recognized facet of the increasing rates of opioid overdose and suicide that have fueled the recent decline in life expectancy in the US: intentional opioid overdose.

Research at the University of Washington have developed a smartphone app that may help prevent opioid overdose-related deaths.

The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) invites innovators to submit novel design solutions for its ASPIRE (A Specialized Platform for Innovative Research Exploration) Design Challenges.

The NIH Back Pain Consortium (BACPAC) Research Program, a component of the NIH HEAL (Helping to End Addiction Long-term) Initiative, has published four RFAs.

A new pain pathway has been discovered, which mediates the “soothing” response after injury – like blowing on a burn or cradling a hurt hand.

The NIH, as part of the Helping to End Addiction Long-Term (HEAL) initiative is planning to release a Funding Opportunity Announcement for clinical trials on comparative effectiveness research.

The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) has released NOT-TR-19-007, a Notice of Intent to Publish a Funding Opportunity Announcement for Tissue Chips to Model Nociception, Addiction, and Overdose.

The 2019 CSDA competition is now open and accepting pre-proposals. The deadline to submit pre-proposals is November 28, 2018 at 3 pm ET.

Dr. Maixner, APS President, discusses the importance of researching and discovering new non-addictive chronic pain management therapies.

American Pain Society grant manager, Susan Vogel, shares the benefits of diversifying revenue sources.

Dr. Monroe, associate professor in The Ohio State University College of Nursing, has been awarded a five-year, $3.3 million R01 grant from The National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Aging (NIH/NIA).

A study by NIH focusing on High Impact Chronic Pain (HICP) was recently published in The Journal of Pain.

After more than two years since the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released its National Pain Strategy, and a year since announcing its Federal Pain Strategy the American Pain Society said today it is pleased and encouraged by significant progress that is occurring as a result toward achieving the goal of increased funding of pain research grants for both basic scientific and clinical studies..