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2025 Jan 03


Drug Alcohol Depend


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Pain severity contributes to worse outcomes in opioid use disorder recovery than pain status.

Authors

Craft WH, Craft CL, Tegge AN, Athamneh LN, Stein JS, Keith DR, Le Moigne A, DeVeaugh-Geiss AM, Chilcoat HD, Bickel WK

Abstract

Opioid use disorder (OUD) continues to pose a significant challenge to public health in the United States. Chronic pain and OUD are highly comorbid conditions, yet few studies have examined the relative associations of pain status and severity toward multidimensional OUD recovery outcomes (e.g., psychopathology and withdrawal).