February / March 2022

• NPAC developed materials to assist patients in filing comments to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Updated Prescribing Guideline.

• Oral argument took place on March 1 in the U.S. Supreme Court on the two cases (including Ruan v. U.S.)  in which NPAC submitted an amicus brief related to interpreting the Controlled Substances Act.

• NPAC’s Executive Director and Advisors were widely quoted in media on both the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions Updated Prescribing Guideline and the Supreme Court  of Ruan v. U.S., including in the New York Times, Scientific American, the Guardian, Reason, Medpage, and STATnews, among others.

• NPAC supported a bill in Minnesota to protect care for people with pain that was adopted into law.