by PAINS Project | Jun 8, 2018 | Advocacy, News, PAINS Updates |
You have an opportunity until June 15 to comment on the recently established Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force, which was authorized by Section 101 of the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016. You can watch the patient testimonials...
by PAINS Project | Oct 17, 2017 | Advocacy, Myra Christopher, News, PAINS Monthly Update, PAINS Updates |
by Myra Christopher, Director of PAINS Sunday night, I watched 60 Minutes on CBS as they interviewed Joe Rannazzisi, former Deputy Director over Diversion at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Rannazzisi was portrayed as a “whistleblower,” and he blamed drug...
by PAINS Project | Sep 18, 2017 | Advocacy, Organization Spotlight, PAINS Monthly Update, PAINS Updates |
by Lesli Hill, MS – Volunteer Coordinator, PAINS Advisory Committee Cindy Steinberg is a woman with a mission to use her serious workplace accident as a catalyst for improving pain care through policy change, transforming understanding of the personal impact of...
by PAINS Project | Aug 16, 2017 | Advocacy, PAINS Monthly Update, PAINS Updates, Policy Alerts & Updates |
by Myra Christopher, Director, PAINS Project In July, the National Academies of Sciences (NAS) released a “consensus study report” titled Pain Management and the Opioid Epidemic: Balancing Societal and Individual Benefits and Risks of Prescription Opioid Use. Richard...
by PAINS Project | Jul 17, 2017 | Advocacy, Life with Pain, PAINS Updates |
Editor’s Note: PAINS-KC is a group of approximately 50 “Citizen/Leaders” (C/Ls) who live with chronic pain or care for a family member who does. PAINS convened this group more than four years ago for the purpose of advising its management team about program...
by PAINS Project | Jun 7, 2017 | Advocacy, Pain Policy, PAINS Monthly Update, PAINS Updates, Policy Alerts & Updates |
As a member of the Consumer Pain Advocacy Task Force (CPATF), PAINS, along with 72 other organizations, signed the following letter addressing the importance of including comprehensive solutions to address chronic pain in their recommendations to the President....
