PAINS Updates
Christopher set to make presentation in Arrow Rock
Published by The Marshall Democrat-News This Sunday, March 25, Myra Christopher – a nationally recognized leader in the field of bioethics – will facilitate the Arrow Rock Federated Church’s Fourth Sunday Community Conversation, with her presentation “Hippocrates to...
Strategies for Promoting the Safe Use and Appropriate Prescribing of Prescription Opioids
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...
The CNN Effect: The mediatization of pain policy
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...
Lumpy Hearts: The Startling Correlation Between Chronic Pain and Cardiovascular Disease
by Lesli Hill, MS, BA - Volunteer Coordinator, PAINS Advisory Committee While those who live with pain know too well the painful lumps and bumps of our emotional hearts, we may not fully understand the consequences of pain on our physiological hearts. We often want to...
AMA Launches “Share Your Story” Campaign To Document Barriers To Care
CHICAGO – The American Medical Association (AMA) is launching a new digital tool kit as part of its ongoing efforts to improve access to high-quality treatment for patients seeking multidisciplinary pain care and for a substance use disorder. The tool kit will be used...
“WWJD?”
by Myra J. Christopher, Kathleen M. Foley Chair in Pain and Palliative Care and Director of PAINS at the Center for Practical Bioethics I recently received a brochure marketing the Journal of Opioid Management, which according to their website, is “a peer-reviewed,...
The Opioid “Crisis”—Do we need to go “Back to the Future” to Respond Effectively?
By Richard Payne, MD - PAINS Project Medical Director The ongoing tragedy of opioid overdose deaths—now reaching 42,000 in 2016 by some estimates—continues to generate much attention. A “Perspectives” column in the January 3, 2018 issue of the New England Journal of...
CDC Clarifies Opioid Guideline Dosage Thresholds
Published by AAFP On March 15, 2016, the CDC issued its final Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain -- United States, 2016.(www.cdc.gov) The guideline is specifically intended for use by primary care health professionals who are treating patients with...
Pain Care Without the Pill: A drug-free, cost-effective and safe approach to working through your pain using chiropractic care
Dr. Sherry McAllister, a Full-time Practicing Chiropractor and the Executive Vice President of the Foundation for Chiropractic Progress, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to building awareness regarding the value of chiropractic care. Listen to interview with...
Understanding Chronic Pain and Suicide – Policy and Educational Brief Released
The question about the relationship between living with chronic pain and suicide is important to understand. We know that approximately 30 million Americans live with what the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has labeled “high-impact chronic pain,”...
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