May 2019

• We worked with reporters, researchers, academics and advocates to ensure representation of the perspective of pain patients in Changing the Narrative, a portal of resources and expert contacts that attempts to shift the narrative on drug policies and media coverage.

• We helped stop a July 2018 proposal in Oregon requiring about 100,000 Medicaid patients with chronic pain to stop taking opioids. We assembled a network of experts, who issued letters asking the Oregon authorities to reconsider, and in May 2019, Oregon announced it would not move ahead with the policy.