by PAINS Project | Dec 21, 2017 | Policy Briefs, Tools |
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,”...
by PAINS Project | Sep 14, 2017 | Policy Briefs, Tools |
As our country is faced with addressing a surge in opioid abuse and misuse, pediatric chronic pain is often absent from policy proposals and funding initiatives despite its prevalence, economic impact, and relevance to the current opioid epidemic. It is estimated that...
by PAINS Project | Aug 11, 2017 | Policy Briefs, Tools |
The United States is facing twin epidemics of pain and opioid misuse. Both are challenging, multifaceted problems with numerous comorbidities, treatment gaps, stigma, and increased risk of death. The role of prescription opioids in soaring rates of drug overdose and...
by PAINS Project | Mar 27, 2017 | Policy Briefs, Tools |
For two decades, much has been made of Pain as the 5th Vital Sign, a policy strategy to improve pain care initiated in the mid-1990s. “Calor, dolor, rubor and tumor,” i.e., heat, pain, redness and swelling, however, have been recognized as classical signs of a serious...
by PAINS Project | Dec 11, 2015 | Policy Briefs, Tools |
Pain Assessments When the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published its landmark report in 2011, Relieving Pain in America: A Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Care, Education and Research, one of its high priority recommendations was: Recommendation 3-6. Provide...
by PAINS Project | Jul 22, 2015 | Policy Briefs, Tools |
In 2011, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published Relieving Pain in America: A Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Care, Education and Research. The report called for a “cultural transformation in the way pain is perceived, judged and treated” and determined that...
