Johnson EC

ORCID: 0000-0003-0394-777X · 2 papers in corpus

review 2025

Chronic Pain and Substance Use Disorders: A Brief Narrative Review of Genetic, Neurobiological, and Environmental Contributions to Comorbidity

Journal of psychiatry and brain science ·doi:10.20900/jpbs.20250003

BACKGROUND: Chronic pain (CP) and substance use disorders (SUDs) frequently co-occur. This brief review highlights environmental, neurobiological, and genetic sources of comorbidity of CP and SUDs, focused on alcohol, nicotine, cannabis, an…

other 2024

Pleiotropy and genetically inferred causality linking multisite chronic pain to substance use disorders

Molecular psychiatry ·doi:10.1038/s41380-024-02446-3

Individuals suffering from chronic pain develop substance use disorders (SUDs) more often than others. Understanding the shared genetic influences underlying the comorbidity between chronic pain and SUDs will lead to a greater understanding…