Patient resources

• Painaustralia - Painaustralia is an advocacy body working to improve the quality of life of people living with pain, as well as their families and carers. They have a range of resources to help you with getting the right care for your pain.

• Chronic Pain Australia – Connect with other people experiencing chronic pain through the national grassroots organisation of people living with pain. 

• Hunter Integrated Pain Service (HIPS) – Find further information and resources for people living with pain and their families provided by Hunter New England Local Health District.

• Australian Pain Management Association – Access a telephone helpline and pain support groups for Australians living with pain.  

• ACI Pain Management Network – Gain a better understanding of your pain and how to manage it through a series of videos developed by the NSW Agency for Clinical Innovation.

• painHEALTH - Find clinically supported information, tips, support and personal stories to help you manage musculoskeletal pain. 

• Brainman - A team at Hunter Integrated Pain Service (HIPS), University of South Australia, University of Washington and Hunter Medicare Local (Hunter ML) have developeda series of videos about chronic pain featuring Brainman. 

• Our Mob - Resources for Aboriginal People

• Pain and thoughts - Learn how negative thoughts and stressful life situations can influence pain with this video resource from the ACI Pain Management Network. 

• Chronic pain reboot - This Way Up offer a course for people with chronic pain to learn skills to help manage pain and improve quality of life.

• Mindfulness and pain - Advice and tips from painHEALTH on how mindfulness can assist in the co-management of musculoskeletal pain condition/s.

• Headspace - A popular resource for mindfulness and meditation. 

• Tame the Beast - A resource to learn more about new approaches to reducing pain

• WellMob: Healing Our Way - An online resource relevant for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People

• Pain and role of medications  - Learn about how medications fit into a pain management plan with this video resource from the ACI Pain Management Network.

• Medicines and procedures - A resource from painHEALTH covering the various medicines and procedures that may form part of your co-management plan for musculoskeletal pain.

• Medication - An overview of medication use in pain management from the Australian Pain Management Association.

• Pain: What is going on? - Information shared by NPS Medicinewise about pain for patients and their carers, including discussion of the role of medications.

This factsheet is a summary of the Faculty of Pain Medicine's position on prescribing medicinal cannabis for people with chronic pain. We hope it helps consumers have informed conversations with their treating physican.