A Whole Person Approach to Lifting the Burden of Chronic Pain Among Service Members and Veterans

NCCIH Director, Dr. Helene M. Langevin, writes a guest post for the NIH Director's Blog.

Click here to view in browser. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services  /  National Institutes of Health A Whole Person Approach to Lifting Pain Among Service Members and Veterans NCCIH Director, Dr. Helene M. Langevin, wrote the March 28, 2023 guest post for the NIH Director's Blog:  "A Whole Person Approach to Lifting the Burden of Chronic Pain Among Service Members and Veterans" Chronic pain and its companion crisis of opioid misuse have taken a terrible toll on Americans. But the impact has been even greater on U.S. service members and veterans, who often deal with the compounded factors of service-related injuries and traumatic stress. For example, among soldiers in a leading U.S. Army unit, 44 percent had chronic pain and 15 percent used opioids after a combat deployment. That compares to 26 percent and 4 percent, respectively, in the general population [1,2]. This disproportionate burden of chronic pain among veterans [3] and service members led NIH's National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) to act. We forged a collaboration in 2017 across NIH, U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), and U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs (VA) to establish the Pain Management Collaboratory (PMC ). Read more

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