Select Resources
- Alliance for Balanced Pain Management (AfBPM)
- A diverse collective of health care advocacy groups, patient organizations, industry representatives and other stakeholders who organize to ensure people with or affected by pain have appropriate access to integrated, effective and safe care across the continuum of care, and raise awareness of the need for individualized treatment.
- http://alliancebpm.org/educate/resources/
- Alliance for Patient Access (AfPA)
- The Pain Therapy Access Physicians Working Group brings together health care providers with an interest in public policy enabling access to appropriate pain management for patients. The working group develops educational resources, such as white papers, policy briefs and videos, which encourage informed policymaking.
- http://allianceforpatientaccess.org/pain/
- National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
- Collection of publications and policy briefs on opioids and opioid use disorder.
- https://www.drugabuse.gov/sites/default/files/policybrief-effectivetreatments.pdf
- Pain & Policy Studies Group (PPSG)
- A World Health Organization (WHO) collaborating center and global research program at the University of Wisconsin whose mission is to improve global pain relief by achieving balanced access to opioids in an effort to enhance the quality of people living with cancer and other painful diseases.
- https://www.theacpa.org/acpa_maze/pain-and-policy-study-group/
- Pain Action Alliance to Implement a National Strategy (PAINS)
- A program of the Center for Practical Bioethics working to establish chronic pain as a public health priority and serve as a catalyst for transforming pain in the U.S. by promoting the vision set forth in the IOM report.
- https://practicalbioethics.org/resources/healthcare-policy-resources.html
Select References
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Doelberg CD, Brown RE Jr, Du Vivier D, Meyer JE, Ramachandran BK. The US opioid crisis: current federal and state legal issues. Anesth Analg 2017;125(5):1675-1681. PMID:29049113 DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000002403
Gross J, Gordon DB. The strengths and weaknesses of current US policy to address pain. Am J Public Health 2018 Nov 29:e1-e7. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2018.304746. [Epub ahead of print].
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Contributors
- Jacob Gross MD, MPH
- Rebecca C. Dale, DO
- Debra B. Gordon RN, DNP, FAAN
