April 2023
NPAC’s Executive Director participated as faculty at the Rx Illicit Drug Summit one of the first times Pain was featured at the summit.
NPAC’s Executive Director and advisor, Leo Beletsky, published an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times criticizing the Drug Enforcement Administration’s proposal to limit telemedicine prescribing of controlled medications. The DEA has temporarily extended such prescribing.
NPAC began work with the HEAL Connections team on a landscape analysis of laws and policies impacting the care of people with pain.