Invisible. Disbelieved. Shunned.

This is the story of their fight.

So, a sociologist with chronic pain walks into a bar...just kidding! But wait—not really! When it comes to dating with chronic pain, we often get the message to accept what we cannot do. But what if people living with chronic pain already know what they need to experience the love, sex, and partnership they desire? Listen to Mary Jessome explain how it surprisingly all played out...

Did you ever put on some Marvin Gaye for a little hanky-panky and end up screwing your back instead? Listen to Professor Stuart McGill talk about the world’s only research he completed with live back-pained couples and Avatar technology to discover how to have sex without triggering back pain!

What science has shown will blow your mind - maybe even enough to have you running for a "sleep coach". YES that's a thing so get in the know! Listen to a sleep expert tell you what you never dreamt you never knew about your own sleep—including how it affects your pain.

How much do you know about the role of physiotherapy for chronic pain? What can recovery mean? Nathan Augeard is on a mission. A physical therapist in Quebec, founder of Physio Connection, and PhD candidate at McGill university, he aims to improve how physiotherapy students learn to help manage pain throughout Canadian universities. WATCH or listen to our first audiovisual podcast!

As you'll hear by all the paper-shuffling Josh does starting a few minutes in, when he's searching for the origins of MME (aka morphine milligram equivalents), he comes up with 'a whole lot of nothing,' just as he says. Really noisy nothing! And those chirping tweety birds you're hearing in the background? Are they those clouds of Looney Tunes 'circling birdies' that twitter above cartoon characters who've been bonked in the head? This stuff IS bonkers, after all.

Learn the facts about the causes of drug overdoses from an authentic expert who's passionate about the truth—and compassionate for all of us still devastated by a decade of bad drug policy.

Lately we're hearing a lot about so-called "central sensitization" of the nervous system as an explanation for chronic pain. Is it real?

Maybe you've heard lately that "the body can't attack itself"? Wrong.

In 2017, we found out the hard way that when it comes to "the war on drugs," what happens in the US doesn't stay in the US.

According to Red, who's slogged through all 211 pages of what he calls this new "little shop of horrors," the rewrite will hurt even more patients than the original did—and even more doctors, too.

If you identify as female and a patient, you've come up against preferential treatment—where men are preferred over women by clinicians (both male and female) and by the medical system itself.

Dr Josh Bloom talks to us about how the facts of pharmaceutical pain relievers are distorted at the get-go by the very words policymakers and the media use to discuss them.

If you suffer chronic pain, you're likely to be poor. Simple as that.

Severe pain. Isolation. Secrets must be kept. No treatment. How do you survive?

North Carolina's Richard "Red" Lawhern, PhD has spent years debunking PROPaganda about the supposed dangers of prescribed opiate analgesics. His analyses show that they didn't cause the "opioid crisis," that "overprescribing" is a fiction, that both the US prescribing guideline and its Canadian derivative are shady business beyond repair, and that undertreating pain is deadly. While a rethink happens stateside, Dr Lawhern says Ottawa's pain policy remains "fraudulent from one end to the other" and that Health Canada is "racketeer-influenced and corrupt." Asserting untruths about both policy and outcomes, he says, "ought to result in somebody doing prison time."

Dr Mary Lynch has long advocated for treating pain well, whatever it takes — maybe even diet and cannabinoids. She's one of the founders of the Pain Medicine certification program at Canada’s Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, is a past president of the Canadian Pain Society, and is Professor of Anesthesia, Psychiatry and Pharmacology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, where she works in the pain clinic at the QEII Health Sciences Centre.

Harvard Law graduate Kate Nicholson served 18 years in the DOJ as a health policy and civil rights lawyer and is an expert on the Americans with Disabilities Act. When a surgical mishap immobilized her for 20 years, opiate meds helped her continue. Kate is known for her TEDx talk, What We Lose When We Undertreat Pain, leads the National Pain Advocacy Center (nationalpain.org), and sits on the CDC's Opioid Workgroup.

Dr Stuart McGill's research investigated issues related to the mechanisms that cause back pain, and how to rehabilitate back-pained people into injury resilience and better performance. His advice is often sought by governments, corporations, legal experts, medical groups, and elite athletes and teams from around the world.

Is the College helping Ontario's doctors alleviate suffering, or is something else going on? What she found is horrifying.