Johnson EC

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

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

BackgroundChronic 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, and …

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…