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Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at University of Washington
Pain specialist at University of Washington, Seattle
Professor of Medicine, Departments of Medicine and Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology at Oregon Health & Science University
Assistant Commissioner for the Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Use Prevention at New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Co-Chair, Pain Curriculum Committee, Yale SOM
Senior Investigator, Institute for Health Research at Kaiser Permanente
Director of Substance Use Research, San Francisco Department of Public Health
Co-Chair, VA Primary Care Pain Champions Initiative, Director of Virtual Pain Care, Richmond VA
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry at University of Michigan Health System
Senior Investigator at Group Health Research Institute
Director of the Prevention Department at CPC
Director & Founder, Comprehensive Pain Program, Toronto Western Hospital
Geriatrics and Palliative Care at UCLA
Primary Care Clinician-Investigator at Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine
Associate Professor at Ambroise Pare Hospital
Resident Physician at Baystate Medical Center
Pain causes widespread suffering, disability, social displacement, and expense. Whether the issue is viewed from a moral, political, or public health perspective, pain that can be relieved should be relieved. Yet the most rapidly effective drugs for relieving pain — opioids — are caught up in a morass of concerns about addiction. Achieving a balance between the benefits and potential harms of opioids has become a matter of national importance.
The United States recently established a national plan to address pain, as Canada, Australia, Portugal, and Malaysia have previously done. This National Pain Strategy grew out of recognition by the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine) of the enormous burden of chronic pain in the United States. For three decades, there has been hope that more liberal use of opioids would help reduce the number of Americans with unrelieved chronic pain. Instead, it produced what has been termed an epidemic of prescription-opioid abuse, overdoses, and deaths — and no demonstrable reduction in the burden of chronic pain.
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at University of Washington
Pain specialist at University of Washington, Seattle
Professor of Medicine, Departments of Medicine and Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology at Oregon Health & Science University
Assistant Commissioner for the Bureau of Alcohol and Drug Use Prevention at New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Co-Chair, Pain Curriculum Committee, Yale SOM
Senior Investigator, Institute for Health Research at Kaiser Permanente
Director of Substance Use Research, San Francisco Department of Public Health
Co-Chair, VA Primary Care Pain Champions Initiative, Director of Virtual Pain Care, Richmond VA
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry at University of Michigan Health System
Senior Investigator at Group Health Research Institute
Director of the Prevention Department at CPC
Director & Founder, Comprehensive Pain Program, Toronto Western Hospital
Geriatrics and Palliative Care at UCLA
Primary Care Clinician-Investigator at Boston Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine
Associate Professor at Ambroise Pare Hospital
Resident Physician at Baystate Medical Center