Advancing Research For Chronic Pain Act
2024 Virtual Advocacy Day
It is time to #TellCongressToCountPain and #WhyPainCounts
Bipartisan legislation introduced that would require the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to analyze and publish population health data on chronic pain
Chronic pain and high-impact chronic pain are a tremendous disease burden on the United States population in terms of patient suffering, loss of productivity, and the costs of health care and disability. Despite patients’ and researchers’ desperate need for information, the CDC does not regularly collect, analyze, or publish comprehensive population research data on pain like it does for other major diseases.
High-quality data is necessary to identify trends, risks, and consequences of pain, and to inform interventions aimed at improving care and patient outcomes while reducing costs to the U.S. health care system.
What you need to know
Chronic pain is an enormous public health problem that must be addressed. There is a tremendous need for regular, high-quality data to better understand the problem of pain, and to inform interventions to improve care and reduce associated costs.
S.2922/H.R.7164 would provide data on:
- Incidence and prevalence of pain conditions.
- Demographics such as age, race, gender, socioeconomic status, and geographic location.
- Effectiveness of evidence-based approaches.
- Utilization of medical and social services.
- Indirect and direct costs.
- Risk factors, comorbidities, and health consequences.
Get involved
U.S. Pain held its Virtual Advocacy Day on Tuesday, July 23, 2024, focusing on ensuring the passage of S.2922/H.R.7164, the Advancing Research for Chronic Pain Act. It is still not too late to take action. Click here to lend your voice to this very important issue.
Watch the webinar recording of “Big Numbers and Why Pain Counts”
To locate references in our one-pager, Advancing Research For Chronic Pain Act, visit: uspainfoundation.org/advocacy/advancingresearchact.