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In this issue:

Issue 83
  • A message from the CEO
  • A word from Painaustralia’s new Chairman, Em Professor Ian Chubb AC
  • Canadian Pain Management Forums
  • Veteran’s Affair Independent Suicide Commission
  • Appropriate use of opioids: TGA’s Communication and education workshop
  • Take Home Naloxone Pilot Program
  • Vale Diana Aspinall
  • Submissions and Policy Updates
  • In the media
  • Painaustralia member and Guest contributor Osteopathy Australia introduces advanced recognition in pain management as a novel approach to delivering quality health outcomes

In the media

Associate Professor Beth Darnall, expert in pain management. Photograph: Ed Jay/Beth Darnall

Media highlights:

Selected media stories featuring Painaustralia including:

  • Coverage of the Take Home Naloxone Pilot in the Daily Telegraph Drug that can reverse an opioid overdose is now free in three Australian states
  • ABC news story on the use of medicinal cannabis by women for the treatment of endometriosis.
  • The Guardian interviews Painaustralia CEO, Carol Bennett and members of the Consumer Advisory Group on Opioids and Pain Management
  • Painaustralia Board Member Professor Paul Glare speaks to Channel 10 on new research that used human stem cells to make pain-killing neurons that provide lasting relief in mice, without side effects, in a single treatment.
  • Painaustralia Clinical Advisor Associate Professor Malcolm Hogg spoke to the SMH on Victorian Real time Prescription Monitoring
  • Painaustralia Clinical Advisor A/Prof Malcolm Hogg spoke to the Age on real time prescription monitoring and the unintended consequences for people with chronic pain.

Blogs

Painaustralia Consumer Advisory Group Member Don Firth talks to his experience as a volunteer firefighter in our weekly blog.

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Our capacity to influence government policy and improve understanding and management of pain is directly related to the strength of our membership network. Your support could make all the difference.
 

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