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Become an informed consumer!! Take personal responsibility for your healthcare needs!!
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[]] Patient's Letter & Anchor to other documents - as a member, you MUST read this!!
http://www.asappain.com/2ThePatient.html
1.) Letter to the doctor = To any Doctor Treating our Members & Pain Patients:
http://www.asappain.com/2TheDoc.html
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2.) Pain Treatment Guidelines - and - Federation's Guidelines = The Model Guidelines for treating pain with opioid medication (These are the Guidelines the DEA Agreed To in Dallas on March 17, 1998!)
http://www.asappain.com/fedGuidelines.html
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5.) Joint Commission = Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations Pain Standards for 2001 (JCAHO)
http://www.asappain.com/JointComm.html
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6.) Doctors of Compassion = Doctors With Compassion
http://www.asappain.com/goodDoctors.html
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7.) "Addiction vs. Dependence" = "National Institute on Drug Abuse, "NIDA on "Addiction vs. Dependence"
http://www.asappain.com/Scheme.html
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8.) Dr. Hurwitz = Be Sure to Sign: The Petition for Dr. Hurwitz - Virginia Medical Machines - William E. Hurwitz, M.D.
http://www.asappain.com/hrwtz1.html
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9.) Dosing Page - Dosage Page = Good dosing "overlaps" - Your Human Right to ADEQUATE pain medication!
http://www.asappain.com/home-1.html
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10.) "Tolerance and Getting High?" = "Tolerance and Getting High?" - Needing an Increase in Medication is no Crime!
http://www.asappain.com/ToleranceGettingHIgh.html
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11.) U.S. Senate Medicine = U.S. MEDICATION ACCESS PROGRAMS
http://www.asappain.com/MEDICATION_ACCESS.html
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12.) Drug Seeker? = Drug Seeker? Most Certainly!
http://www.asappain.com/Drug_Seeker.html
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13.) Pain Rexperts Drug Store = Pharmacies for Pain Patients
http://www.asappain.com/painRxPerts.html
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14.) Florida Document (if you're from Florida) = The "Florida Document"
http://www.asappain.com/FlaDocument.html
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15.) "Fake Pain Clinics" = How what we call: FAKE Pain Clinics Work
http://www.asappain.com/clinicPage.html
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16.) UC Davis of California = Or How Americans are "Tortured for Hire" - The results of an insane "War" on Medicine & Patients.
http://www.asappain.com/aCalifPainClinic.html
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17.) State Reps Page = "Pain Placement Reps" or (Angels) - Patients helping other patients, for their Human Right to Freedom >From Pain in a Drug War Gone Mad.
http://www.asappain.com/PlacementReps.html
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18.) Panic Page = The A.S.A.P. Panic Page! for Intractable Pain Patients. The Panic Page!
http://www.asappain.com/panic.html
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19.) Discussion Group = To join the Internet Discussion Group
http://www.asappain.com/discussion.htm
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20.) "Hospitals wince over pain ratings" = not found!
http://www.denverpost.com/news/news0220b.htm
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21.) Link to Drug Conversion Calculator = Tools for Patients Care Provider - Drug conversion calculator
http://www.talaria.org/provtoolsF.html
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22.) Opioid Therapy for Chronic Nonmalignant Pain: Clinicians' Perspective
http://208.234.16.94//research/mayday_jlme/24.4g.html
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23.) Pain Management and IC: "What's True is What Our Patients Tell Us"
http://www.ic-network.com/handbook/brookoff.html
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24.) Chronic Pain: A New Disease?
http://www.hosppract.com/issues/2000/07/brook.htm
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25.) The Inquistion of Dr. Solomon: A Medical Heretic?
http://www.asappain.com/specialPage.html
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26.) Oxycotton the New Street Drug of Choice for Many - Physicians Say It's Needed to Treat Severe Pain...The official name is OxyContin, but on the street it's known as " oxycotton."
http://content.health.msn.com/content/article/1728.72176
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27.) The National Association of State Controlled Substances Authorities ( NASCSA ) - Adopted: October 29, 1999
http://www.medsch.wisc.edu/painpolicy/domestic/NASCSA.htm
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28.) (Name of state) Statute regarding the treatment of intractable pain - Effective date
http://www.medsch.wisc.edu/painpolicy/domestic/valaw.htm
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29.) (Name of state) Board of Medicine: Guidelines for the Use of Opioids in the Management of Chronic, Noncancer Pain for Virginia - Approved February 5, 1998
http://www.medsch.wisc.edu/painpolicy/domestic/vambguid.htm
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30.) American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) Position and Consensus on: The Use of Opioids for the Treatment of Chronic Pain
http://www.painmed.org/productpub/statements/opioidstmt.html
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31.) Consensus Statement from the American Academy of Pain Medicine and American Pain Society on: The Use of opioids for the Treatment of Chronic Pain
http://www.ampainsoc.org/advocacy/opioids.htm
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