Chronic pain is a huge problem among the disabled, cancer and other patients,
with its control by means of certain drugs being severely hampered by what
some scientists call "opiophobia" and the very indiscriminate "War on Drugs".
Unfortunately, far too many genuine pain sufferers live in constant agony
because of draconian legislation which fails to recognise the special needs
of medical patients who have tried almost everything under the sun to control
thir enormous levels of ongoing pain.
The following collection of websites give information on chronic pain and its
management by drugs and many other non-pharmacological means. Maybe they
will be of value to some members of this group.
American Society for Action on Pain:
<http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/asap/>
American Pain Society:
<http://www.ampainsoc.org/>
North American Pain Asdsociation of Canada:
<http://www.chronicpaincanada.org >
Oxford Pain Internet Site:
<http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/painres/painpag/index.html>
Compassionate and Ethical Treatment of Pain:
<http://hometown.aol.com/op8s/myhomepage/news.html>
Pain Management:
<http://www.docguide.com/news/content.nsf/PatientResAllCateg/Pain%20Management
?OpenDocument>
Pain.com
<http://www.pain.com/index.cfm>
PainNet:
<http://www.painnet.com/>
Pain Research and Management:
<http://www.pulsus.com/Pain/home.htm>
International Society for the Study of Pain:
<http://www.halcyon.com/iasp/>
Partners Against Pain:
<http://www.partnersagainstpain.com/>
Research into Persistent Pain:
<http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/Archive/neuro5.html>
Abstracts from the Journal of Pain:
<http://www.jpain.org/>
Neuropathic Pain:
<http://www.spineuniverse.com/treatment/pain/ag_060500richeiner_neuropain.html
>
Dopamine: The Pleasure and the Pain:
<http://www.heroin.org/dopamine/>
Professional Guidelines for Chronic Pain Management:
<http://www.asahq.org/practice/chronic_pain/chronic_pain.html>
Spinal Chronic Pain Management:
<http://www.lsi.ukans.edu/RTCIL/CPM.HTM>
Medscape Clinical Discussions on Chronic Pain (Join free):
<http://rheumatology.medscape.com/Medscape/features/spotlight/sep/jc-0997.spot
light.html>
If anyone else has other web resources on pain and its management, please
share them with the rest of us, because at some stage of our lives, serious
pain is going to afflict us or our loved ones.
Dr Mel C Siff
Denver, USA
http://www.egroups.com/group/supertraining
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