Chronic pain is considered a public health crisis due to its high prevalence, impact, costs, and disparities in pain prevalence and treatment. In parallel, drug overdose, particularly due to opioids, has become an epidemic in the United States, prompting a public health crisis concerning harms associated with both prescribed opioid therapy for chronic pain and illicit opioid use. The purpose of this special issue is to highlight state-of-the-art psychological research that addresses the combined issues of chronic pain and harms associated with opioids. Articles included in this special issue focus on 2 related areas. The 1st set of innovative articles focuses on risk factors for chronic pain, characterization of patterns of opioid use and misuse, assessment of opioid risk, and identification of moderating factors in populations ranging from adolescents to older adults. The 2nd set of articles includes exemplary research on psychological approaches for management of chronic pain and opioid risk mitigation; integration of psychological approaches in patient-centered, evidence-based, multimodal and interdisciplinary plans of pain care; and treatment of co-occurring chronic pain and opioid use disorder. Last, the issue includes a guest editorial highlighting psychological research and the participation of psychologists in the National Institutes of Health's Helping to End Addiction Long-Term (HEAL) initiative. In this introduction, the guest editors highlight the objectives in this special issue are to stimulate additional research to develop psychological approaches to reduce opioid misuse behaviors, to help educate providers on opioid prescribing that is equitable and minimizes risk of harms, and to address co-occurring chronic pain and opioid use disorder in vulnerable populations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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心理学在解决慢性疼痛和阿片类药物相关危害的双重危机中的作用：特刊简介。

慢性疼痛被认为是一种公共卫生危机，因为它的患病率、影响、成本以及疼痛患病率和治疗的差异很大。与此同时，药物过量，特别是由于阿片类药物，已成为美国的一种流行病，引发了一场公共卫生危机，涉及与处方阿片类药物治疗慢性疼痛和非法阿片类药物使用相关的危害。本期特刊的目的是强调最先进的心理学研究，这些研究解决了与阿片类药物相关的慢性疼痛和危害的综合问题。本期特刊中的文章侧重于 2 个相关领域。第一组创新文章侧重于慢性疼痛的风险因素、阿片类药物使用和滥用模式的特征、阿片类药物风险评估、并确定从青少年到老年人的人群中的调节因素。第二组文章包括关于慢性疼痛管理和阿片类药物风险缓解的心理学方法的典型研究；将心理方法整合到以患者为中心、循证、多模式和跨学科的疼痛护理计划中；以及同时发生的慢性疼痛和阿片类药物使用障碍的治疗。最后，该问题包括一篇客座社论，重点介绍了心理学研究和心理学家参与美国国立卫生研究院帮助终止长期成瘾 (HEAL) 计划。在本介绍中，客座编辑强调本期特刊的目标是激发更多研究，以开发减少阿片类药物滥用行为的心理方法，帮助教育提供者了解阿片类药物处方的公平性并将伤害风险降至最低，并解决弱势人群中同时发生的慢性疼痛和阿片类药物使用障碍。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2020 APA，保留所有权利）。