The National Pain Strategy Is Released
A draft of the long awaited National Pain Strategy (NPS) was released today, and the National Institutes of Health want to know what you think.…
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Federal Government Increasing Opioid Scrutiny
The U.S. Health and Human Services(HHS) has announced it is expanding its role in reducing prescription opioid and heroin related overdose, death and dependence. This…
New Spinal Cord Stimulation Therapy Showing Promising Results
Does spinal cord stimulation (SCS) work in relieving pain? Some data released at the American Academy of Pain Medicine Annual Meeting held in Maryland in…
You Make the Call: Risk or Opiophobia?
Kurt W.G. Matthies is former computer engineer and freelance writer who has lived with the chronic intractable pain of severe spine disease for over 20…
Are Pain Patients Getting The Short End?
When the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) rescheduled hydrocodone from Schedule III to Schedule II last October, many pain patients feared their pain medication supply would…
Chronic Pain Sufferers Erupt
Chronic pain sufferers getting frustrated. A story that the National Pain Report ran on Saturday (March 7) has generated a digital conversation about how chronic…
Twitter and Chronic Pain–A Second Look
We have a confession to make. When National Pain Report decided to run a story on Britt Johnson's decision to take her chronic pain story…
Medical Marijuana Gets A Boost In Washington D.C.
The U.S. Senate appears be taking up the battle over the medical marijuana. Two Democrats and one Republican are introducing a bill that would protect…