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APF Collaborates with Life Love & Health

APF collaborates with Life Love & Health to launch a series of brief messages about pain. Life Love & Health has become America's most listened-to daily health and lifestyle program, reaching millions of listeners via XM; CNN, Fox, ESPN; on Sirius; Public Radio affiliates; Wal-Mart Radio; www.HealthRadio.net Internet radio; and the Voice of America. Listen to our shows Debunking Pain Myths featuring Dr. Scott Fishman and Dr. Perry Fine and Living With Pain featuring Dr. Todd Sitzman and 17-yr old Maura Hollister who lives with pain.

Introducing the New Military/Veterans Survey for 2008

APF is committed to reaching out to Military and Veteran persons who suffer chronic daily pain and provide them with educational information to improve their pain care, decrease their sense of isolation, and support them in their pursuit of a better quality of life for themselves, their families and caregivers. So that we may better address those needs, we ask that you complete our New Military /Veterans Survey. Please help us so that we may better serve you.

Military Pain Care Act of 2008 Has Been Introduced!

The Military Pain Care Act of 2008 (HR 5465) has been introduced in the House of Representatives by Rep. David Loebsack (IA-2). The successes of military health care both on and off the battlefield result in high survival rates of severely injured military personnel who will be afflicted with significant pain disorders on either an acute or chronic basis. Pain management is critical to restoring the lives of our servicemen and women. Please show your support for our troops by supporting this important legislation. CLICK HERE for more information and to TAKE ACTION NOW! There is strength in numbers.

Please view our endorsement request and join us by having your organization endorse the Consensus Statement supporting appropriate pain care for our military and their families. Click here to view the Consensus Statement and the full list of organizations who endorse the Military and Veterans Pain Care Acts.

Catch Your ZZZ's - Release Your Pain

This limited online chat, Catch Your ZZZ's - Release Your Pain: The Importance of Sleep in the Battle Against Chronic Pain, lead by Brenda Murdough MSN, RN-C, APF's Military/Veterans Initiative Coordinator, was held on February 26, 2008. Click here to read the transcript of the chat and get some sleep tips. Click here to join PainAid, get support online, and read previous transcripts of chats. Stay connected! More chats are coming soon!

Carolyn Noel is Recipient of Third Annual APF Service Excellence Award!

Carolyn Noel, APF Military/Veteran's Program Advocate and PainAid Moderator, is the recipient of the 2007 APF Annual Service Excellence Award. This award, bearing the name of its first recipient Carolyn Nuth, a long-time staff member, is given every year to a staff person who most displays compassion, integrity and excellence in work. Please read more about Carolyn's work...

Safety Alert: Duragesic Patch Recall

Patches containing the prescription pain medication fentanyl were recalled Tuesday 2/12/08 because of a flaw that could cause patients or caregivers to overdose on the potent medication inside. Sold in the United States under the brand name Duragesic by PriCara and generically by Sandoz, Inc., the voluntary recall includes all 25-microgram-per-hour patches with expiration dates on or before December 2009. Other strength patches (12.5, 50, 75 and 100 mcg/hr) are not affected. Expanded Recall: Actavis has recalled ALL fentanyl patches in the U.S. as a precaution. Please click here for more detailed information.

March is Social Work Month!

Each year social workers across the country celebrate National Professional Social Work Month during March, reflecting on the history of the profession, celebrating the important work that is currently being done and looking toward a future of promise for the individuals, families and communities they serve. This year’s theme, Building on Strengths: Help Starts Here, focuses on the important strengths inherent in each individual, family and community. Read more about the power of social work...

ABC News: "What Is Pain?"

ABC News has aired three interviews in their online On Call + Pain Management Center, featuring pain management experts including two APF board members. In the first segment, “What Is Pain?,” APF Board member and PCAC co-chair Andrea Cooper, and her daughter, Maura Hollister, speak about living with chronic pain. APF board member Russell Portenoy, MD and Woodson C. Merrell, M.D., Sc.D. from the Beth Israel Medical Center discuss pain management practice and issues. Continue watching to see additional segments, Children and Pain: How Can You Tell if Your Child is in Pain? and Addiction to Pain Pills: How to Manage Your Medication to Avoid Addiction.

Please visit the ABC News On Call + Pain Management Center to post a comment thanking ABC for their coverage of this important subject.

In Memoriam: Dr. Harvey L. Rose 2008

Dr. Harvey L. Rose, a family practitioner who successfully fought California state charges of prescribing too many pain medications to become a champion for the rights of patients and physicians to use effective drugs for chronic pain, died in January, 2008.

Dr. Rose was a leading medical advocate for using prescription medicines, including opioids, to alleviate chronic pain when other forms of treatment fail. He challenged the thinking of many physicians who avoid pain medications for fear of patient addiction or being disciplined for over-prescribing drugs. Read more...

APF Now a Pain Treatment Topics Affiliate!

The mission of Pain Treatment Topics is to serve as a noncommercial resource for healthcare professionals, providing open access to clinical news, guidelines and reports, research, information and education for a better understanding of evidence-based pain-management practices. Visit their website at http://www.pain-topics.org!

Pain & Creativity

APF’s online exhibit highlights the visual art, prose and poetry chosen by our volunteer jury. These pieces are beautiful and heartfelt and they represent a small portion of the many, many wonderful works of art submitted. Click here to see other artistic expressions of pain, connect with the artists, or contribute your art to the ongoing Pain and Creativity Center. Watch our video of art and voices of people with pain.

APF's Top Ten Tips for Coping

APF's Pain Information Library now features a new section called Top Ten Tips for Coping. Please read Easing Pain Around the Holidays, Pain-Free Tips for Travelers and The Road to Pain Relief...more will be added!

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