Proposed 2022 CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Opioid Prescribing
The CDC announces the opening of a docket to obtain comment on the proposed clinical practice guideline, CDC Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids—United States, 2022 (the clinical practice guideline).The clinical practice guideline provides evidence-based recommendations for clinicians who provide pain care, including those prescribing opioids, for outpatients age 18 years and older with […]
Addiction Treatment ECHO Seeks Participants
The AAP will host a Project ECHO learning collaborative on addiction treatment in pediatric settings. The goal of this ECHO is to increase pediatric provider knowledge and capacity to treat substance use disorders in a medical home setting, with a focus on opioid use disorder. For more information, click here. This […]
HEAL Initiative: Advancing Health Equity in Pain and Comorbidities
NIH’s Helping to End Addiction Long-term (HEAL) initiative to speed scientific solutions to the national opioid public health crisis has announced The NIH HEAL Initiative bolsters research across NIH to (1) improve treatment for opioid misuse and addiction and (2) enhance pain management. NIH has a funding announcement for this purpose, Letters of Intent (strongly […]
NIH Pain Research Funding Opportunities
There is an urgent need for more research to establish best practices in the pain management field, however, there is a limited workforce pipeline of pain researchers to meet NIH’s long-term goals of providing effective non-opioid options for the treatment of pain conditions and better pain management overall. The NIH is announcing the HEAL Initiative: […]
Pediatric Pain Standard – Public Review Open until February 4, 2022
Dear Colleagues, A draft Pediatric Pain Management Standard has been developed by the Health Standards Organization (HSO) and Solutions for Kids in Pain (SKIP) in consultation with: patients and family members, clinicians and health service administrators, government and health services stakeholders, and researchers. Once approved, the Standard will apply across the continuum of care to all Canadian health and social services organizations […]