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Helpful Documents and Web Sites
  1. CDC Guideline For Prescribing Opioids For Chronic Pain
    1. CDC Guideline Resources
  2. Documents from PainEDU.org
    1. A Pocket Guide to Pain Management - This comprehensive pain resource for health care providers is updated quarterly and offers an overview of pain epidemiology, pathophysiology, types of pain, assessment, measurement tools, diagnostic testing and treatment (4th edition). Published: 2010
    2. Managing Chronic Pain with Opioids in Primary Care, 2nd Edition - This user-friendly guide provides easily accessible information to practicing clinicians that addresses their concerns about prescribing opioids, while at the same time providing for the safe and effective treatment of their patients with chronic, moderate to severe pain. This provides clinicians suggestions to preparing a practice, guidelines to assess risk, and practical tips on the long-term management of patients with opioids. This new edition adds a significant amount of new content, including a summary of recent guidelines and important regulatory issues that will likely affect all health care providers that utilized opioids for chronic pain management in the primary care setting. Published: 2010
    3. Cross Cultural Pain Management - This addition to the Inflexxion Health Series provides guidance to clinicians affected by the cultural transformation that is taking place in the United States. While this book offers details about some of the issues that may separate Hispanic patients from others, its primary purpose is to minimize these differences to reach common ground. The focus of the text is to help establish mutual understanding and communication between healthcare providers and Hispanic patients, which is critical to quality care. Published: 2009
    4. Your Guide to Pain Management - This Guide is a useful adjunct to the PainACTION.com website for patients with chronic pain. It gives them access to detailed information about building productive partnerships with healthcare providers, and ways to develop effective skills for self-management, communication, and coping. Specific topics cover important aspects of the chronic pain "journey", including safe use of prescription pain medications, managing back pain, migraine pain, and cancer-related pain. This second edition also includes sections on neuropathic pain, arthritis pain and Wounded Warriors. Much of the information is useful for patients dealing with any type of chronic pain. Published: 2012
    5. Courses In A Box - Print-ready PowerPointTM presentations that comes complete with speaker notes. These tools are designed to be a resource for clinicians and educators to use in classrooms, grand rounds, conferences, and for in-service education. Note - these Courses In A Box change over time.
      1. The Role of Opioid Rotation in Managing Chronic Pain
      2. Medication Safety and Managing Pain: Opioids
      3. Medication Safety and Managing Pain: OTC Medications
      4. Setting Realistic Goals and Expectations for Patients with Chronic Pain
      5. Perioperative Pain Management
      6. Patient Education in Chronic Pain Management
      7. Educating Patients about Medication-Related Adverse Effects
      8. Monitoring Patients on Chronic Opioid Therapy
      9. Opioid Risk Stratification and Patient Selection in Clinical Practice
      10. Opioid Risk Management: The Screener and Opioid Assessment for Patients with Pain (SOAPP) in Clinical Practice
      11. The Logic of Successful Pain Management
      12. Pathophysiology of Pain
    6. Articles On Current Pain Management Issues
    7. Book Reviews
  3. Other helpful documents (will download)
    1. Opioid Clinical Management Guide - A Prescriber's Resource for Responsible Prescribing and Use - Improve patient outcomes by enhancing healthcare professional knowledge of the potential risks, responsible prescribing, and safe use of opioid analgesics.
    2. Prescribing Chronic Opioids - A Structured Approach for Primary Care Physicians- August 2010 (3.7 MB)
    3. Opioid Treatment Guidelines - Clinical Guidelines for the use of Chronic Opioid Therapy in Chronic Non-cancer Pain. The Journal of Pain, Vol 10, No 2 (February) 2009: pp 113-130 (8 MB)
    4. 2009 Clinical Guidelines from the American Pain Society and the American Academy of Pain Medicine on the use of chronic opioid therapy in chronic non-cancer pain - by Roger Chou. This is a review article.
    5. Analysis for opioid prescription practices finds areas of concern - NIH report, April 5, 2011
    6. Patients on Higher Doses of Prescription Painkillers More Apt to Overdose - MedlinePlus April 5, 2011
    7. A Nation In Pain - Focusing on US Opioid Trends for Treatment of Short-Term and Longer-Term Pain - December 2014
  4. The role of alternative treatments in the management of chronic pain
  5. The most important web sites (will open in new windows)

    6. General Pain Management Sites (PainEDU.org for a more complete listing)

    1. American Academy of Pain Management
    2. American Pain Society
    3. American Chronic Pain Association
    4. American Pain Foundation
    5. The American Academy of Pain Medicine
    6. American Society Of Interventional Pain Physicians
    7. National Institute of Drug Abuse

    Chronic Pain Sites, End of Life Sites, Other Specialty Pain Websites, Cancer Pain Sites, Headache Pain Sites and Find A Physician Sites can be found on PainEDU.org, on the popup menu under News and Resources/Select a Resource Category