Chronic pain resources

On this page

• National resources
• Provincial and territorial resources
• Indigenous resources
• For veterans
• For health care providers

National resources

• Pain Canada
• Canadian Pain Society
• Chronic Pain Network
• People in Pain Network
• Pain Management Resources (Arthritis Society Canada)
• Canadian pain clinic listing (McMaster University)

Children, parents and caregivers

• Solutions for Kids in Pain
• Pediatric Pain Management Standard

Mental health and substance use

• Get help with substance use
• Mental health support
• Substance use support for tradespeople

Courses and education

• Chronic Health Conditions Course (Online Therapy Unit)
• Empowered Relief (Stanford University)
• Modules to manage your pain (Toronto Academic Pain Medicine Institute)

Provincial and territorial resources

Indigenous resources

• Aboriginal Children's Hurt and Healing Initiative
• Chronic Condition Prevention and Management (First Nations Health Authority)
• Chronic Pain Toolkit (Grand Council Treaty #3)
• Chronic Pain and Indigenous Peoples (Pain BC)
• Pain, Pain Killers and Indigenous Peoples: Choose the right medicine for you in partnership with your physician (First Nations Health Authority)
• Which Medicines will Support my Recovery from Opioid Addiction? (Thunderbird Partnership Foundation)

Hope for Wellness Help Line

Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to Indigenous people seeking emotional support, crisis intervention or referrals to community-based services.

Support is available in English and French, and in Cree, Ojibway and Inuktitut by request.

Phone: 1-855-242-3310 (toll-free)

Hope for Wellness online chat

For veterans

• Chronic Pain Centre of Excellence for Canadian Veterans

For health care providers

• Chronic Pain Care for Indigenous Patients: A Primer for Healthcare Providers (Centre for Wise Practices in Indigenous Health)
• 2022 Consensus Statement for the Prescription of Pain Medication at Discharge after Elective Adult Surgery (Taylor & Francis)
• 2025 Canadian Opioid Prescribing Guideline for the Management of Chronic Non-Cancer Pain (McMaster University) (PDF, 280 KB)
• Opioid Crisis curriculum (Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada)
• American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA)
• Evidence on pain management (Canada's Drug Agency)
• Annual Scientific Meeting (Canadian Pain Society)
• National Pain Rounds (Canadian Pain Society)
• Chronic non-cancer pain management and opioid resources (The College of Family Physicians of Canada)
• ECHO Chronic Pain & Opioid Stewardship Canada
• International Association for the Study of Pain
• The Journal of the International Association for the Study of Pain
• Canadian Journal of Pain
• Pain Foundations (Pain Canada)
• Moving Through Pain (Pain Canada)