2008 Achieving Balance Reports Progress Report Card Evaluation Guide (State profiles) Click here to see the reports and supplemental materials

• Comments on FDA Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS)

• State policy profiles (under construction)
  
  
• Comments on DEA Proposed Rule re: E-Prescribing of Controlled Substances

• A much-needed window on opioid diversion (Editorial) [2007 Pain Medicine]

• Diversion of prescription opioids [slide presentation]

• Database of Statutes, Regulations, & Other Policies for Pain Management
  
  
• Federation of State Medical Board's Model Policy

• Prescription Monitoring Programs

• State Continuing Medical Education Policies for Pain and Palliative Care

• Is the DEA’s New “Prescription Series” Regulation Balanced? [A commentary from Aaron Gilson and David Joranson]

• DEA Policy Statement and Proposed Rule re: "Prescription Series"

• Federal Regulations for Prescribing Controlled Substances [A slide presentation by Howard Heit and Aaron Gilson]
  
• Code of Federal Regulations: Part 1306 Prescriptions

• PPSG Domestic Publications

• PPSG Archived Publications

• Pain Policy Resources

• Conference presentations & monographs

DRUG CONTROL
AND ACCESS TO MEDICINES (DCAM) CONSORTIUM

Coming soon!!

Global effort to improve
access to therapeutic opioids

• Access to therapeutic opioid medications in Europe by 2011? Fifty years on from the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs [2010 Pall Med, Cleary, Hutson, Joranson]
  

• Vatican - Nearly 2 billion people without access to basic medicine (15 June 2010)

• Morphine Remains Scarce for Pain Sufferers Worldwide [7 June 2010, TIME magazine]

• Improving Availability of and Access to Opioids in Colombia: Description and Preliminary Results of an Action Plan for the Country [2009 JPSM article]

• HRW - Special Report on Pain, 3 March 2009

• On-line course
  Increasing Patient Access to Pain Medicines around the World: A Framework to Improve National Policies that Govern Drug Distribution

• Country Profiles on Opioid Availability - New 2007 Data
  
  
• International Pain Policy Fellowship (IPPF)
  
  
• Evaluation of International Model Laws

• Ensuring opioid availability: Methods and resources [2007JPSM article]

• Reforming drug control in Romania [2006 Lancet article]

• "Achieving Balance in National Opioids Control Policy," WHO Guidelines

• WHOCC Annual Report 2007

• Conference presentations & monographs

• Guidelines for patients traveling internationally with controlled drugs

• Pain Policy Resources

• "Cancer Pain Release," a WHO Newsletter

• PPSG International Publications

• PPSG Archived Publications

• PPSG Resource Handout