
BehaviorJanuary 30, 2023
Rising Physical Pain Is Linked to More ‘Deaths of Despair’
What’s happening in the body, as well as the mind, can be tied to increases in drug overdoses, suicides, and more
Lucía Macchia is a behavioral scientist at City, University of London. She studies the socioeconomic, psychosocial and behavioral determinants of physical pain. She has also written about pain for the Harvard Business Review.

Rising Physical Pain Is Linked to More ‘Deaths of Despair’
What’s happening in the body, as well as the mind, can be tied to increases in drug overdoses, suicides, and more