Comprehensive Center for Pain & Addiction
Empowering people to thrive
The Comprehensive Center for Pain & Addiction focuses on all aspects of pain and addiction, including clinical care, education, research, clinical trials, neonatal abstinence, medication-assisted training, legislation and technology to improve health outcomes.
From 1999 to 2022, nearly 727,000 people died from an opioid overdose involving prescription or illegal opioids, according to data from the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control.
At the same time, the American Chronic Pain Association reports that 1 in 4 people are living with chronic pain, and 1 in 10 people suffer from high-impact pain that prevents them from participating in work and family life. Pain is among the most common reasons adults seek medical care and is associated with decreased quality of life, increased isolation, anxiety, depression, risk of opioid dependence and poor mental health.
Center of Excellence in Addiction Studies
The National Institute on Drug Abuse-funded Center of Excellence in Addiction Studies (CEAS) is focused on improving chronic pain while decreasing opioid use by establishing a Southwest region addiction science network to encourage research and education into the overlapping neurobiology of pain and addiction.
