by PAINS Project | Feb 26, 2018 | Integrative Medicine, Treatment Options |
Published by Alexandria Times Chronic pain can mean different things to different people. Whether you are a patient, a doctor, a parent or a politician, your view on pain medications can vary depending on your perspective. Those who work the front lines of our...
by PAINS Project | Feb 26, 2018 | News & Updates, Pain Policy, PAINS Monthly Update, PAINS Updates |
by Myra Christopher, Director of PAINS Could this mark a new era? On February 15th, the Duke Margolis Center for Health Policy released a landscape analysis of strategies being used by US health system stakeholders to support safe and appropriate prescribing of...
by PAINS Project | Feb 22, 2018 | News, Pain Policy |
Published by New England Journal of Medicine Mr. P. is a 34-year-old man who sees his primary care physician regularly for chronic spine pain. Several years ago, he had a motorcycle accident that left him with a ruptured spleen, a shattered pelvis, and multiple...
by PAINS Project | Feb 22, 2018 | Pain Policy, PAINS Monthly Update, PAINS Updates |
For the past five years, PAINS has published a report focused on our work and that of others to promote a “cultural transformation in the way pain is perceived, judged and treated.” Below is the 2017 report, The CNN Effect: The mediatization of pain policy. In concert...
by PAINS Project | Feb 21, 2018 | News, Pain Policy |
Published by UNM Health Sciences There is growing evidence that liberal prescribing of opioid analgesics by clinicians for patients suffering from chronic pain may have contributed to the current epidemic of prescription opioid abuse. Now, University of New Mexico...
