Achieving Balance Reports Progress Report Card Evaluation Guide (State profiles) Being updated for March 2013!

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

• 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

The Morphine Manifesto
A call for affordable access to immediate release oral morphine

Press Release

Sign the Morphine Manifesto

DRUG CONTROL
AND ACCESS TO MEDICINES (DCAM) CONSORTIUM

www.dcamconsortium.net

Global effort to improve
access to therapeutic opioids

Opioid Consumption Map & Chart

• 2009 data now available!
  Opioid Consumption Overview
• Global and Regional
• Country Profiles
  
  
• Read the article and comment here:
  Disparities in Pain Treatment Dividing Europe
  
  
• Read this article regarding the excellent work of International Pain Policy Fellow Dr. Zippy Ali:
  The unsung heroine who takes away pain, Daily Nation, September 16, 2011
  
  
• Ensuring Patient Access to Essential Medicines While Minimizing Harmful Use: a Revised WHO Tool to Improve National Drug Control Policy [2011 J Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother. Gilson, et al.]
  

• New WHO policy guidelines now available!
  "Ensuring Balance in National Policies on Controlled Substances, Guidance for Availability and Accessibility of Controlled Medicines" March 2011

• Guide to Pain Management in Low-Resource Settings,edited by Andreas Kopf, MD, and Nilesh B. Patel, PhD
  
  
• “Improving the availability and accessibility of opioids for the treatment of pain: The International Pain Policy Fellowship” JSCC August 2011

• Russian translation of 1996 WHO document "Cancer Pain Relief, Second Edition, With a Guide to Opioid Availability"
  

• ON-LINE COURSE - Relaunched March 2011

• INCB, WHO, and UNDP urge governments to step up efforts to improve opioid availiability February 2011

• Experts worry over growing cancer burden in Nigeria - Vanguard Online Edition, 8 March 2011
  

• Pain Relievers [Jenny Price, On Wisconsin Magazine, Winter 2010]
  
  
• Palliative Care Gains Ground in Developing Countries [Kristine Crane, November 2010 JNCI]
  
  
• A Compendium of INCB Statements on Access to Medicines
  
  
• 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]
  

• The Politics of Pain [Tatum Anderson, August 2010 BMJ]
  

• International Pain Policy Fellowship (IPPF)
  
  
• Evaluation of International Model Laws

• Guidelines for patients traveling internationally with controlled drugs

• Pain Policy Resources

• PPSG International Publications

• PPSG Archived Publications

• PPSG Resource Handout