National Pain
Council

Position Papers:

Below you will find Position Papers written by the National Pain Council, feel free to use or distribute these as long as it is not for commercial use.  Stay tuned for additional papers to be added!!

#020  Medical Abandonment / Tort Abandonment:

"Medical abandonment, or, in legal terms, tort abandonment, is severe and purposeful disruption of active or critical medical care, resulting in patient harm to the degree that it qualifies for civil action through lawsuits or other civil...."

#030  Suicides :

This is the National Pain Council's Publication regarding Patient Suicides due to the 2016 CDC Opioid Guidelines. 
This is just a partial selection of 41 cases we collected up until 2019.

#301  NPC's reply to the CDC 

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This is the National Pain Council's response to the Proposed "2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids" on the Federal Register website.

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Federal Register Docket Number: 2022-02802

#006  TEN MILLION PEOPLE:

The ten million people who take daily opioid pain medications, and why.

#041  Patient's Stories of Harm:

There are ten-million patients in the United States with rare and painful diseases who require daily pain medications, In this publication we allow them to describe in their own words the HARM the CDC Guidelines have caused.

#199  NPC Pain Scale

Article #199 of the National Pain Council discusses the benefits of a "3 Level Pain Scale vs the Traditional 10 Number Pain Scale" that is typically used with Physicians, and is widely subjective.