November/December 2023
NPAC’s Executive Director met with policymakers on Capitol Hill regarding recent federal legislation related to pain
As part of ongoing implementation efforts for S.B. 144, a Colorado law protecting people with pain who require opioids, NPAC’s ED published The Last Word in Colorado Medicine, the magazine of the Colorado Medical Society.
NPAC submitted a formal comment in response to the Department of Health and Human Services’s proposed rule updating the regulation under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. The comment addressed discrimination in medical treatment.
NPAC submitted formal comments on the Drug Enforcement Administration’s proposal to reduce the overall supply of certain controlled medications.
NPAC drafted talking points that were distributed to the harm reduction/drug policy community on the Drug Enforcement Administration’s proposed rule urging public comment.
NPAC submitted a letter to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate HELP Committee in Support of the Advancing Research for Chronic Pain Act and advising the committee on pain.