Patient Abandonment and Forced Taper Questionnaire
Webinar - Congressional Advocacy Workshop - 1/27/23 2:00PM EST
2022 - CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain
State Policies and Laws About Opioids, Pain Management, PDMP, CME's, MMJ
Advocacy Tips and sample letter for outreach to local Lawmakers/Senator/Rep-
Step-by-step instructions on how to advocate for a loved one who is in the hospital (pdf)
How to start the process of getting legislation passed in your state
A list of important studies, articles, interviews, podcasts, etc.
Table of recent studies, research, and statistics showing overdoses, rate of addiction, PDMP use, etc. (useful when speaking to legislators, media, doctors, etc.)
How do I file a complaint for a civil rights violation (according to the ADA-American With Disabilities Act)
Steps to request copies of your Electronic Health Records (EHR) and steps to correct errors in them
Advocacy Tips and sample letter for outreach to local Lawmakers/Senator/Rep
The following includes tips from a former Congressional staffer for how to reach out to your local Legislator. We've included a sample letter.
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How to start the process of getting legislation passed in your state
- Click here to find out who your local representative is.
- Research your state to see what the current prescribing laws are because you will need to create legislation based on what already exists.
- Ask if they will sponsor a bill to protect chronic pain patients and doctors
- Show them the legislation in:
NH CPP advocate, Bill Murphy, walks you through the steps to get legislation in your state:
A list of important studies, articles, interviews, podcasts, etc.
Here are links to important helpful studies, articles, podcasts, interviews to help you when talking to legislators, media, doctors, etc. These are about the false narrative, the litigation narrative, PDMP, NarxCare, CDC Guidelines, PROP, Conflicts Of Interest, etc.
We will add new links as they come out.
The Misinformed & Misguided Prescription Abuse Prevention Act: A Response to Delfino - Jacob James Rich - Yale 2023
Cops Practicing Medicine - The Parallel Histories of Drug War I and Drug War II - Dr. Jeffrey Singer and Trevor Burns - CATO Institute
Overdose, opioid treatment admissions and prescription opioid pain reliever relationships: United States, 2010-2019
New Data on Opioid Dose Reduction - Implications for Patient Safety - Jama -Dr. Stefan Kertesz
The Opioid Crackdown Leaves Chronic Pain Patients In Limbo - The Hill
Greg Gutfeld: We Should Legalize Drugs And Here's Why - Fox News
Pain Med Prescriptions Did Not Cause The Opioid Epidemic, Courts Rule - Las Vegas news, George Knapp interviews Dr. Dan Laird
Against The Pain: The Opioid Crisis and Medication Access - NPR, radio show
PROP's Disproportionate Influence On U.S. Opioid Policy: The Harms Of Intended Consequences - Pallimed
Roger Chou's Undisclosed Conflicts Of Interest: How The CDC's 2016 Guideline For Prescribing Opioids Lost It's Clinical And Professional Integrity - Pallimed
The Pain Was Unbearable So Why Did Doctors Turn Her Away? - Wired
Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs: Effects On Opioid Prescribing And Drug overdose Mortality - Reason
Dosing Discrimination: Regulating PDMP Risk Scores - Law Journal
How Fear, Misinformation, Stigma Have Devastated US Pain Patients - Filter
Physician Convicted Of Illegally Prescribing Opioids Says The DEA Has Turned Doctoring Into 'Another Aspect Of The War On Drugs.' - Chicago Tribune
How Drug Warriors Made The 'Opioid Epidemic' Deadlier- Reason
If Lawmakers Really Want To "Follow The Science" They Will Repeal Codified Opioid Guidelines - Cato Institute
A New Study Finds No Relationship Between Opioid Prescriptions And Unintentional Injury Deaths - Reason
ASA Urges Changes To Draft Updated CDC Guideline For Prescribing Opioids - ASA
Time To Revamp CDC's Problematic 2016 Opioid Rx Guideline - AMA
A New Study Finds That Reducing Pain Medication is Associated With An Increased Risk Of Overdose And Suicide - Reason
CDC's Crackdown on Opioid Pain Medications is Abysmal Failure - Didn't Fix the Crisis and Americans are Suffering with Severe Pain - Gateway Pundit from Fox News story
Evaluating the Stability of Opioid Efficacy over 12 months in patients with chronic noncancer pain (shows opioids work)
Table of recent studies, research, and statistics showing overdoses, rate of addiction, PDMP use, etc. (useful when speaking to legislators, media, doctors, etc.)
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