Wrecks at the Intersection of Law and Pain

Jennifer Bolen, JD

There are wrecks at the intersection of law, medical ethics and pain. Jennifer Bolen of the Legal Side of Pain explains in this edition of The Bioethics Channel.

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Podcast
Managing Chronic Pain with Opioids: A Call for Change, A White Paper by the Nurse Practitioner Healthcare Foundation

Christopher Named to Institute of Medicine Committee on Pain

The Institute of Medicine has named Myra Christopher, president and CEO of the Center for Practical Bioethics, to a committee charged with addressing “the current state of the science with respect to pain research, care, and education; and explore approaches to advance the field.”

The project is sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. For more information click on the links below.

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Project Overview
Committee Membership

Be Careful How You "Help"

Drew Edmondson
Attorney General-Oklahoma

Be careful how you help when it comes to curbing abuse of prescription drugs. That’s according to Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson.

He writes about it in the November 2010 issue of the American Journal of Bioethics, and he talks about it on the Bioethics Channel with Lorell LaBoube.

Link to podcast here.

Pain Contracts: Policy Implications

Final of Three Part Series

On April 27 the Center for Practical Bioethics convened a broad spectrum of pain management professionals to consider the utility and the ethics of pain contracts or agreements. The meeting focused on professional, patient and policy issues around physician use of contracts to prescribe opioids and other pain medications.

The Center will produce a policy brief from comments delivered during this gathering and the November issue of the American Journal of Bioethics will be devoted to the concept of pain contracts.

In this third and final segment of a three part series, The Bioethics Channel examines the policy implications of pain contracts.

Pain Contracts: Too Many Variables, Aaron Gilson, Director – Pain and Policy Studies Group, University of Wisconsin, 10 minutes 18 seconds

Pain Contracts: Trust but Verify?, Ben Rich, University of California-Davis, 7 minutes 33 seconds

Pain Contracts: Good for Patients?

Second in Series

On April 27 the Center for Practical Bioethics convened a broad spectrum of pain management professionals to consider the utility and the ethics of pain contracts or agreements. The meeting focused on professional, patient and policy issues around physician use of contracts to prescribe opioids and other pain medications.

The Center will produce a policy brief from comments delivered during this gathering and the November issue of the American Journal of Bioethics will be devoted to the concept of pain contracts.

In this second of a three part series, The Bioethics Channel examines patient issues involved in pain contracts.

*Pain Contracts: A Patient Perspective, Carlton Haywood, PhD, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, 9 minutes 42 seconds

*Pain Contracts: Social Determinants, Carmen Green, MD, University of Michigan, 10

*Pain Contracts: Balance at the Bedside, Will Rowe, President and CEO, American Pain Foundation, 5 minutes 4 seconds

Pain Contracts as Policy: A Good Idea?

On April 27 the Center for Practical Bioethics convened a broad spectrum of pain management professionals to consider the utility and the ethics of pain contracts or agreements. The meeting focused on professional, patient and policy issues around physician use of contracts to prescribe opioids and other pain medications.

The Center will produce a policy brief from comments delivered during this gathering and the November issue of the American Journal of Bioethics will be devoted to the concept of pain contracts.

In a three part series starting April 30 The Bioethics Channel will feature interviews with participants in this program. In this edition, Drs. Scott Fishman and Richard Payne discuss the professional impact of pain contracts.

Pain Contracts: Great Good or Great Harm?, Scott Fishman, MD, University of California-Davis, April 30, 7 minutes 10 seconds

Pain Contracts: Unintended Consequences, Richard Payne, MD, Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life, April 30, 6 minutes 24 seconds

Bioethics Center recognized for patient advocacy

Award presented during annual meeting of American Academy of Pain Medicine

The American Academy of Pain Medicine has awarded the Center for Practical Bioethics their Patient Advocacy Award for an outstanding contribution to the field of pain medicine.

AAPM President Rollin Gallagher will present the award to Myra Christopher, Center president and CEO, during opening activities of the annual meeting on February 4.

According to the Academy, “the Patient Advocacy Award recognizes activity of an individual in advocating for appropriate evaluation and treatment of patients suffering from pain. This award was created to honor those healthcare professionals whose deeds reflect their recognition of the importance and impact of the specialty of Pain Medicine.”

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Center Balanced Pain Policy Initiative
Video, Seeking a Balanced Pain Policy, 7 minutes 38 seconds