Pain

Pain is a fact of life. For many, it is excruciating and inescapable, a truly disruptive force. But amid the continuing fallout of the global opioid crisis, new technologies are being developed every day to limit and potentially even eliminate pain.

Professor Hannah Fry learns about the future of pain management and how revolutionary technologies are being developed to directly control pain signals. She talks to the scientists behind these technologies about how this unprecedented breakthrough works, as well as meeting pain research participants themselves in order to understand the life-changing implications of such research. Along the way, she considers how society views pain and what a pain-free future would truly mean for humanity.