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Chronic Pain Patients Say Opioid Law Creates New Crisis https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/maine/articles/2017-04-22/chronic-pain-patients-say-opioid-law-creates-new-crisis AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Jane Avery says the pain from her psoriatic arthritis is the worst at 2 a.m. when she can’t sleep and already has met her daily limit on painkillers. Her daily dosage of the drugs was cut in half about six months […]

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Patients Could Be Jailed in Florida Drug Crackdown www.painnewsnetwork.org/stories/2017/4/22/patients-could-be-jailed-in-florida-drug-crackdown By Pat Anson, Editor The Florida legislature is close to passing a bill that would require mandatory minimum sentences for anyone convicted of selling, purchasing or possessing illicit fentanyl. Critics say the legislation could result in pain patients being sent to jail when they unwittingly buy […]

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Hi. I work with a group in Michigan called Pain Resistance Network. We are hosting a Pain Patients Radio Day on April 23 (the start of Pain Patients Advocacy Week) and I’m wondering if you would be interested in having a show that day? We are offering pain patients rights groups two hour radio shows […]

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https://www.facebook.com/groups/1473112896072084/   Description This group is for people SERIOUS about fighting for pain patient rights. All members will be expected to help in this fight to regain our rights to proper pain care

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Training Health Care Providers on Pain Management and Safe Use of Opioid Analgesics—Exploring the Path Forward; Public Workshop; Request for Comments https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=FDA-2017-N-1094-0001 https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=FDA-2017-N-1094-0001 Summary As part of the work by the Federal Government to address the epidemic of prescription and illicit opioid abuse, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA, the Agency, or we) is announcing […]

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Nurse Replaces Surgeon General After Obama Appointee Resigns www.nytimes.com/2017/04/21/us/politics/surgeon-general-trump-administration.html Rear Adm. Sylvia Trent-Adams, now the acting surgeon general. Credit United States Department of Health and Human Services Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy, an Obama administration holdover, was asked to resign by the Trump administration on Friday. He was replaced by his deputy, Rear Adm. Sylvia […]

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