Rhode Island
On June 2, 2021, Rhode Island’s Governor Dan McKee signed Bill 384 into law. A copy of the bill can also be found here. Greg Amore, Claudia Merandi’s local Representative, fought hard for this bill to pass which protects intractable pain patients from the 2016 CDC Opioid Guidelines. Recently, in March 2022, Arizona also passed legislation that was […]
Oklahoma
Please join Oklahoma’s Don’t Punish Pain Rally Facebook page to network with other CPP’s in Oklahoma Oklahoma’s Intractable Pain Bill In April 2021 Oklahoma’s Bill SB57 unanimously passed the House and Senate. Hearing About Harms From Forced Tapers On November 1, 2021 the Oklahoma, Alcohol, Tobacco, and Controlled Substances Committee held a hearing. The purpose was to discuss an […]
New Hampshire
Please join New Hampshire’s Don’t Punish Pain Rally Facebook page to network with other advocates from NH. New Hampshire’s Bill, HB1639, was signed by Governor Sununu in August of 2020. It was originally created as a separate bill, SB 546, but was later added to Omnibus Bill HB1639. The bill was created and passed with the amazing efforts […]
Arizona
Please join Arizona’s Don’t Punish Pain Rally page to network with other CPP advocates from Arizona In April of 2022, Arizona passed a law, Bill SB1162, protecting pain patients. Dr. Jeffrey Singer testified if favor of the bill Governor Doug Ducey Signs SB1162 into Law Helping Arizonians with Chronic Intractable Pain Get the Treatment They Need “Senator Nancy […]
Updated/Expanded CDC Guideline Information
As many of you know, the 2016 CDC Opioid Guidelines have caused harm to many. Whether the guidelines themselves are the problem or if they have just been misapplied has been widely discussed by experts. In July 2021, the CDC released their draft of the updated opioid guidelines. We explained it all in detail in our […]
Why did a govt. agency (CDC ORRP) call us and demand we remove social media content?
Summary of our dramatic interaction with CDC’s Opioid Rapid Response Program (ORRP) Our other researcher, Carrie Judy, and I (Bev) initially heard about ORRP from a hearing transcript and a podcast interviewing a DEA agent. ARPO’s efforts are not exclusively prosecutorial, however. Rapid response teams within the strike force work with HHS to ensure that persons physically dependent on […]