Targeted Behavioral Pain Management May Improve Chronic Pain in Patients With Substance Use Disorder

Behavioral pain management techniques that focus on the interplay between chronic pain and the potential for substance abuse may improve pain tolerance and lower pain intensity in patients who have substance use disorder (SUD), suggests a study in JAMA Psychiatry.Mark A. Ilgen, Ph.D., of the VA Center for Clinical Management Research in Ann Arbor, Mich., and colleagues compared pain tolerance and intensity of 470 adults over 12 months. All patients[…]