This summer, children and teens living with chronic pain reached the top of a rock wall, traversed a ropes course,...
Blog Articles
My Story: Why I Am So Passionate About Alternative Pain Treatments
From Young, Healthy, and Active to Disabled In 1977, I was 25 years old and attending graduate school, working towards...
Adjusting to Life with Chronic Pain
My heart breaks when I meet a young person sharing that they are confronting life with chronic pain. At the age of 74,...
SSDI EASES FINANCIAL BURDENS WHEN YOU CAN’T WORK —HERE’S HOW TO NAVIGATE IT
One of the most significant stressors experienced by those living with debilitating chronic pain is how to pay for the...
WOMEN’S PAIN IS WIDESPREAD, BUT RESEARCH LAGS AND DISBELIEF ABOUNDS
For as long as she can remember, Claudia King has experienced pain with urination as well as pain during and after...
MAKING OVER-THE-COUNTER MEDICATIONS MORE ACCESSIBLE
For the more than 50 million Americans who live with chronic pain, over-the-counter (OTC) pain relievers may be right...
Join U.S. Pain Foundation as we tell Congress that Pain Care Needs More Options – Virtual Advocacy Day 2022
Millions of people with chronic pain have been tapered off of opioid medications and not offered other...
U.S. Pain Foundation’s Docket Comments to the FDA on the Development of Non-Opioid Analgesics for Acute Pain
The U.S. Pain Foundation recently submitted comments to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in response to its...
U.S. Pain Foundation’s Comments on the 2022 Revised Draft CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids
Note: The following has been submitted to the CDC in response to the Revised Draft CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for...
U.S. Pain Foundation launches 2022 Chronic Pain Community Survey
The U.S. Pain Foundation wants to make sure we are effectively supporting and advocating for our community. In order...
Preparing for the Expected Aging Process
By Ellen Lenox Smith, Co-director, Medical Cannabis Advocacy Remember when you were young and never thought about life...
Storm of Pain
By Michele RiceThere’s a beautiful and picturesque little town nestled in the embrace of the fluffy snow blanketed...