• Demario S Overstreet, Bethany D Pester, Jenna M Wilson, K Mikayla Flowers, Nora K Kline, and Samantha M Meints.
• Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Woman's Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA, 02411, USA.
• Curr Pain Headache Rep. 2023 Jan 1; 27 (1): 1101-10.

Purpose Of ReviewThis review synthesizes recent findings related to the biopsychosocial processes that underlie racial disparities in chronic pain, while highlighting opportunities for interventions to reduce disparities in pain treatment among BIPOC.Recent FindingsChronic pain is a prevalent and costly public health concern that disproportionately burdens Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC). This unequal burden arises from an interplay among biological, psychological, and social factors. Social determinants of health (e.g., income, education level, and lack of access or inability to utilize healthcare services) are known to affect overall health, including chronic pain, and disproportionately affect BIPOC communities. This burden is exacerbated by exposure to psychosocial stressors (i.e., perceived injustice, discrimination, and race-based traumatic stress) and can affect biological systems that modulate pain (i.e., inflammation and pain epigenetics). Further, there are racial/ethnic disparities in pain treatment, perpetuating the cycle of undermanaged chronic pain among BIPOC.© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.

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