July/August 2023

• NPAC worked with the Colorado Medical Society to Implement S.B.144 through county and state-level newsletters and speaking on podcasts.

• NPAC’s ED and President were appointed to the advocacy council of the US Association for the Study of Pain (USASP.)

• NPAC worked on a video story in the New York Times that featured NPAC’s Dawn Gibson on how patients who require opioids face barriers to care.

• NPAC spoke in an inclusive storytelling and language learning session for NIH researchers focused on pain as part of its partnership with HEALConnections. 

• NPAC spoke on Crisis Jam, a broadcast dedicated to suicide prevention, about suicide following opioid discontinuation.

• NPAC participated in a podcast mini-series offering four recordings on stigma in the overdose crisis: two with a focus on pain and two with a focus on addiction.

• NPAC spoke on pain and mental health in a panel for Pain Canada.

• NPAC did a podcast episode for the Opioid REMS training on opioid tapering offering a provider and patient perspective.

• NPAC spoke on Off/Kilter Podcast with Rebecca Valas of The Century Foundation about advocating for the health and human rights of people living with pain.