December 17, 2016
On December 6, 2016, the Alliance for Balanced Pain Management convened its third annual Summit on Balanced Pain…
December 8, 2016
There’s no way to address America’s prescription drug abuse crisis without balanced pain management, explained the National Institutes of Health’s Linda Porter, PhD, at Tuesday’s Summit on Balanced Pain Management.
September 27, 2016
New data show that street drugs, not prescription opioids, directly caused 85 percent of opioid overdose deaths in Massachusetts during 2013 and 2014.
September 8, 2016
Opioid and heroin abuse is an epidemic that kills 78 Americans every day, explains a new video from the Alliance for Patient Access. But as federal agencies, state lawmakers, professional organizations and inter-agency collaborations lay out different plans for addressing the epidemic, people must ask: Which plans will work? And which will curb abuse without undermining legitimate medical care for patients in pain?
August 23, 2016
Opioid-related deaths have tripled since 1999. Now, innovative hospitals are combatting opioid abuse by rethinking how they help patients manage surgical pain. In its recent webinar, the Collaborative for Effective Prescription Opioid Policies spotlighted several hospitals’ work toward better understanding – and minimizing – opioid abuse.
August 4, 2016
State governors are ready to take action on the opioid abuse epidemic. The National Governors Association released “A Compact to Fight Opioid Addiction” on July 13 with the goals of reducing inappropriate opioid prescribing, improving awareness of risks and addiction, and clearing the way for addiction treatment and recovery.
July 14, 2016
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has a question for HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell: Any progress on the National Pain Strategy? In a letter to Secretary Burwell, 12 senators reiterate the widespread suffering and financial toll of chronic pain. “It is time,” they explain, “to transform the [National Pain Strategy] from a plan on paper to a reality …to improve [Americans’] health and quality of life.”
June 28, 2016
The opioid abuse epidemic continues to generate state laws aimed at reducing opioid misuse and overdose.
June 2, 2016
Pain advocates on this side of the Atlantic could learn from our European counterparts when considering how to advance balanced pain management.
May 17, 2016
Balanced pain management offers an opportunity to better manage pain, control rising costs and reduce the potential for opioid abuse, explains a new white paper from the Alliance for Balanced Pain Management.
