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)
  

• 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

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 y 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