Meagher MW, et al. - Researchers performed this cross-sectional study recruiting 3,073 undergraduates (72% female, mean age = 18.8 years, SD = 1.4 years) to determine if more adverse events would be a risk factor for common chronic pain conditions and pain medication use in young adults after controlling for different adversity types such as physical, emotional, and sexual traumatic events or vice versa. The participants were made to complete the survey for current health status and early life traumatic events. They observed a 1.2–1.3-fold increase in the odds of any chronic pain, chronic back pain, headache, and dysmenorrhea in correlation with more adverse events with adjusting for adversity types. However, these were not identified to be associated with the risk of comorbid pain conditions and use of pain medications. Findings suggest that for chronic pain conditions, cumulative childhood adverse events might be a more significant risk factor than the experience of a specific type of adverse event. They suggest clinicians and researchers assess cumulative childhood adversity when evaluating its link to chronic pain.