January / February 2023

• NPAC began work on a bill in Colorado to protect people with pain who require controlled medications from discrimination in care.

• NPAC met with the U.S. Department of Justice on algorithmic discrimination in pain care.

• NPAC met with the Washington Department of Health to advise against its adoption of Bamboo’s NarxCare scoring due to concerns about algorithmic discrimination.

• NPAC’s ED helped develop the first Consensus Guidelines on Perioperative Cannabis and Cannabinoids, published in January.

• NPAC advisor Dr. Hance Clarke gave an hour-long interview on the CBC/Canadian public broadcaster on failures in chronic pain treatment in Canada.

• ïNPAC’s ED keynoted a conference at UCSF, addressing “Advocacy, Equity, Access, and the Lived Experience of Pain.”