Category: Persistent Pain

Our Health Resource of the Week is a new video that introduces you to what you need to know about over-the-counter (OTC) pain medications. 

The Alliance for Aging Research has debuted two animated “pocket films” focused on educating consumers about how to safely choose, take, and store OTC pain medication.

This is the press kit for the OTC pain medication films. 

This Health Resource of the Week challenges you to test your knowledge about OTC pain medications.

The Alliance has released two new pocket films on safe OTC pain medication use and storage.

The Alliance for Aging Research wrote a letter to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) requesting modifications to the 2016 CDC Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain. Specifically, the Alliance recommended the CDC modify the guidelines by:  Including a statement calling for further investment of federal resources into clinical research to assist providers in tailoring long-term opioid use. Requiring Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to provide an updated clinical evidence review of the guidelines Calling on public and private payers to broadly cover the cost of non-pharmacologic interventions for pain sufferers.  Adding more resources to www.cdc.gov on the safe use of non-opioid pain treatment Removing the non-evidenced based dosage recommendations Removing the time/specific pill limit for acute pain treatment

The Alliance and other organizations signed on with this December 10, 2015, letter produced by the U.S. Pain Foundation focused on Draft Legislation HR 4063, Promoting Responsible Opioid Management and Incorporating Medical Expertise Act.

Today we want to talk about your medicines, as October serves as Talk about Your Medicines Month. 

For our Health Resource of the Week, we share this infographic to make you aware about what Americans feel about pain and what they do to treat it.

Today we released a survey of 1,600 Americans ages 18 and over that reveals insights on pain and OTC pain medications. This infographic offers a summary of the results.