Chronic pain has been treated with antidepressants for some time, the rationale being that while they don’t actually treat the pain, you mind it less.
This can be useful for patients with long-standing unremitting pain, but are antidepressants really that effective? This is an oft-asked question and Warwick University researchers have had a stab at answering it by bringing together the evidence from more than 150 trials into one report.
Make no mistake, chronic pain is a big problem and affects between a third and half of the UK population.
