NASEM will host two public workshops to gather information and guide its work in drafting clinical practice guidelines for prescribing opioids for acute pain. Register for the first webinar on February 4th .
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The HHS Pain Management Best Practices Inter-Agency Task Force has released a draft report calling for individualized, patient-centered pain management to improve the lives of millions of individuals who experience acute...
An advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommended prescribing the opioid overdose reversal drug, naloxone, with addictive painkilllers. Full story .
The American Medical Association (AMA), Pennsylvania Medical Society (PAMED) and Manatt Health released the first in a series of studies of state responses to the opioid epidemic. Full story .
Federal and state government efforts to reduce prescription opioids are inadvertently harming chronic pain patients in the United States, Human Rights Watch said in a new report. Full Story .
A three-part Fox News Series examines the nation's struggle to address a crippling opioid crisis, and the unintended victims left in its wake: Part 1: The Suicides Part 2: The Doctors Part 3: The Solutions
Your AAPM delegates joined other pain and palliative medicine societies to rally the AMA House of Delegates to adopt a policy opposing the misuse of the 2016 CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain. Read a...
A statement from the American Academy of Pain Medicine While valid concerns have been raised by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists regarding spinal cord stimulators (SCS), the American Acade...
November 2018, National Harbor, MD Submitted by Robert Wailes, MD, AAPM AMA Delegate The AMA House of Delegates (HOD) met November 10-13 in National Harbor, MD, to discuss many challenging issues and draft new policies i...
Thanks to AAPM members like you maintaining membership in the American Medical Association (AMA), the Academy was recently informed that it has been determined eligible for continued representation in the AMA House of De...