Patient's Letter & Anchor to other documents... You must read this page!! Below I've listed the many links that are within the Patient's Letter.
http://www.asappain.com/2ThePatient.html
Knowledge is power; and information is how you get it!! Start taking responsibility for your healthcare by becoming informed about both Adhesion Related Disease (ARD) and chronic pain.
The starred (**) items below are perhaps the most important articles on the list!! Print them out -- read and highlight the MOST important information -- staple them together -- and present this information to your doctor. If doctors aren't going to educate themselves, then we are going to have to try to educate them ourselves -- beginning with the reality of chronic pain and appropriate medication for chronic pain!!
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** 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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3.) Federation Guidelines = The Summation of the DEA's Dallas Speech
http://www.asappain.com/fedGuidelines.html
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4.) The Patient's Card ( Postponed for now.)
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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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