The Pain Pod

Deconstructing Toxic Narratives reframes the opioid epidemic as a structural and systemic failure rather than just a story of reckless prescribing. It analyzes how socioeconomic, political, and cultural forces—such as economic decline, trauma, and unequal access to care—drive addiction, offering community-centered solutions to address these root causes.

Have you ever heard of anyone diagnosed with “Trigeminal Neuralgia” helping other people to cope with their pain? To have hope for the future? You won’t want to miss this powerhouse of a guest…

There ARE investigations and treatments that you have never heard of - we promise!

Find out how essential it is to give voice and shape to pain experiences that often go unseen, misunderstood, or unheard. NOTE: Unfortunately, our guest had a poor microphone experience but hang in there and you'll get to the end - he's worth it!

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.