A team showed how both alcohol intake and alcohol withdrawal can lead to increased pain and hypersensitivity. Chronic alcohol consumption may make people more sensitive to pain through two different ...

Researchers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) have developed a non-permanent form of gene therapy for chronic pain that they suggest could offer a safer, non-addictive alternative to ...

The search for a safer opioid has followed pain medicine for decades. Doctors still need strong drugs for surgery, major injury, cancer pain, and severe flare-ups. Yet the same medicines can slow ...

The link between alcohol consumption and chronic pain is complex. It's not unusual for people with chronic pain to consume alcohol to self-medicate—to drink to help sand down the sharp edges of their ...

Tarantulas, the well-known hairy and scary spiders, are the world’s largest spiders. Most tarantulas are busy minding their own business and won’t bother you if you don’t bother them. However, one ...

Referred pain is when the pain you feel in one part of your body is actually caused by pain or injury in another part of your body. For example, an injured pancreas could be causing pain in your back, ...