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+title: Chronic pain
+kind: problem
+status: open
+year: 1965
+statement: What causes pain to persist after injury heals, and can it be treated without addictive drugs?
+space: chronic-disease
+---
+About one in five adults lives with chronic pain. Opioids work poorly long-term and caused an addiction crisis. In 2025 suzetrigine became the first new class of non-opioid pain drug approved in decades, for acute pain. Chronic pain involves changes in the nervous system itself, which makes it harder.
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+## Sources
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+- [Wikipedia: Chronic pain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic_pain)
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+[[Space:chronic-disease|Chronic disease]] · [[Continent:medicine|Medicine]]
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About one in five adults lives with chronic pain. Opioids work poorly long-term and caused an addiction crisis. In 2025 suzetrigine became the first new class of non-opioid pain drug approved in decades, for acute pain. Chronic pain involves changes in the nervous system itself, which makes it harder.