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• Discovery reveals blocking inflammation may lead to chronic pain

  12-05-2022 15:27
  Using anti-inflammatory drugs and steroids to relieve pain could increase the chances of developing chronic pain. New research puts into question conventional practices used to alleviate pain. Normal recovery from a painful injury involves inflammation and blocking that inflammation with drugs could lead to harder-to-treat pain.
  
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• ‘Being homeless felt inevitable’: after years in care, I was living in a tent. Who was to blame?

  12-05-2022 07:00
  
  I survived care, criminality and homelessness to become an award-winning journalist – but the system I endured makes such success stories vanishingly rareWhen I zipped up my tent on my first night sleeping rough, I felt no despair. It was 2013 and I had picked a grassy patch near a bridle path, where I listened to the wind rustling through the trees as raindrops bounced off my nylon roof. I had always assumed something like this was going to happen to me. It had felt almost inevitable for
  
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