Pain/Opioid Consortium of Research (CORE)

The Pain/Opioid Consortium of Research (CORE) strives to build capacity and enhance collaboration to advance Veteran-centered research on pain conditions and opioid use disorder (OUD). Together with our partners, the Pain/Opioid CORE promotes efforts to move research findings into wider use.

The scope of the Pain/Opioid CORE includes:

• Pain and/or OUD treatments and care delivery models
• Practice and policy initiatives related to pain and/or OUD
• OUD prevention and harm reduction
• Prevention and management of prescription opioid harms

Within this scope, the CORE is also interested in the co-occurrence of physical and mental health conditions with pain and OUD, including other use disorders. Treatment approaches of interest include medications and noninvasive nondrug therapies.

VA Program Office Partners

• Pain Management, Opioid Safety and Prescription Drug Monitoring (PMOP)
• Office of Mental Health-Substance Use Disorder (OMH-SUD)
• Office of Patient Centered Care and Cultural Transformation (OPCC&CT)