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Boundaries Without Guilt: Learning to Say No When You Live With Chronic Pain
Learning to say no with chronic pain can be difficult. Alina Savulescu shares how setting boundaries can protect your energy, relationships, and well-being.
Different Diagnoses, Same Struggles: 15 Experiences People With Pain Share
Different diagnoses can bring many of the same struggles. Explore 15 shared experiences that connect people living with chronic pain.
7 Voices. 7 Ages. 1 Message.
Seven voices, ages 10 to 77, share how chronic pain shapes different stages of life and what they wish others better understood.
This Pain Awareness Month, Let’s Change Pain
This Pain Awareness Month, join #OneVoiceForPain as we unite all ages, diagnoses, and stories to build greater understanding, better care, and change.
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Action needed today on CMS proposal
Feb 28, 2017| News
Many patients with chronic pain are concerned about the unintended consequences of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) newly published proposal to curb opioid misuse and abuse, “Opioid Misuse Strategy 2016.” U.S. Pain urges the...
VA restricts opioids for veterans and military service members
Feb 27, 2017| News
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DoD) recently released new opioid prescribing guidelines for chronic pain that are more stringent than those released last year by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Biosimilars legislation sweeping across the country
Feb 27, 2017| News
Although still a newer technology in the medical field, biosimilars remain an ongoing priority topic for U.S. Pain Foundation. The 2017 legislative session has seen 13 states take up the task of approving legislation pertaining to biosimilar...
Points for Pain raises nearly $9,000 in three games
Feb 27, 2017| News
13-year-old Tyler Cashman, U.S. Pain director of pediatric awareness and fundraising, has raised more than $8,600 so far this year through three recent Points for Pain basketball games. All of the games took place in Cashman’s home state of New...
Non-medical switching bills announced in three more states
Feb 27, 2017| News
Non-medical switching, or when insurers force patients off medications for financial reasons, continues to be a hot button topic in numerous states. U.S. Pain is leading coalitions in three states that introduced bills to prohibit non-medical...
200 patient groups send letter to HHS Secretary
Feb 27, 2017| News
U.S. Pain was one of 200 other patient organizations to sign a letter to U.S. Human and Health Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price asking him to maintain and enforce critical patient protections and prescription drug access when reviewing and...
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