Policy Alerts & Updates
North Carolina Proposes Rules for Opioid Use in Workers’ Comp Cases
Published by Insurance Journal The North Carolina Industrial Commission has proposed new rules related to the utilization of opioids, related prescriptions, and pain management treatment as a proactive measure aimed at curtailing opioid misuse and addiction in...
Call Out the Imbalance in Current Policy Making for Pain Management and Prescription Opioid Use
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...
PAINS Signs Letter to President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis
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....
WEBINAR: Implementation of the National Pain Strategy: Moving Toward Improving Health and Quality of Life of Individuals Living with Chronic Pain
Hosted by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Health and the National Institutes of Health Thursday, May 11, 2017 - 8:30AM – 4:30PM ET The goals of this meeting are to share information about NPS implementation activities, to hear about external partner...
White House Petition to Implement the NPS Needs Your Support
In support of the National Fibromyalgia & Chronic Pain Association (NFMCPA) and the Consumer Pain Advocacy Task Force (CPATF), we’re excited to announce the launch of the White House Petition to urge the implementation and funding of the National Pain Strategy (NPS)....
PAINS Activity Update
March 2016 was a very important month in the world of pain policy. On the 15th of the month, the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain was officially released. This was quickly followed by the long-awaited release of the National Pain Strategy on...
National Pain Strategy: Letter to the President
Dear President Obama: On Friday, March 18, 2016, HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell released the long-awaited National Pain Strategy: A Comprehensive Population-Health Strategy for Pain (NPS). The National Pain Strategy report is an epiphenomenon of the Institute of...
Update: CDC Meets to Discuss Opioid Prescribing Guidelines
As you know, PAINS quickly responded to the proposed CDC Guideline, including a visit by some PAINS members to Atlanta to meet with Dr. Deborah Houry and her colleagues. At that meeting, the PAINS team offered to be of assistance and asked for four things: Additional...
Proposed CDC Guidelines for Opoid Prescribing Could Unintendedly Make the Burden of Chronic Pain Greater for Millions of Americans
by Myra Christopher, PAINS Director Several months ago the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) announced that it was their plan to develop guidelines for opioid prescribing. Since then there has been much speculation and concern about this initiative among those...
Recap of PAINS Collaborators Meeting
by Myra Christopher, PAINS Director In anticipation of publication of the National Pain Strategy (NPS) Report, in June, 2015 the Pain Action Alliance to Implement a National Strategy (PAINS), a coalition of national leaders and organizations committed to advancing the...
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