Opioids and chronic pain
Opioids are a class of medicines taken to help reduce pain. They work on the central nervous system to slow down nerve signals between the brain and the body.
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2023 Combined SIG Meeting
23 Jun 2023 - 31 Jul 2023 | Surfers Paradise
This year’s Combined SIG meeting was held on 23-25 June 2023 at QT Gold Coast.
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Chronic-pain-treatments-and-spinal-cord-stimulation-key-topics-27-Apr-2019
Grant-for-chronic-pain-after-breast-cancer-surgery-22-Dec-2018
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Prescribing medicinal cannabis for chronic non-cancer-pain
This fact sheet is from the Faculty of Pain Medicine, Australian
and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists. It is a summary
of our position on prescribing medicinal cannabis for people
with chronic pain.
$40 million Australian Government cut to chronic pain patients
Read our media release criticising the Australian Government for cutting $40 million from desperately needed services for people living
with chronic pain after it rejected key recommendations from a national taskforce.
Chronic Pain MedsCheck trial submission_June 2022
Faculty of Pain Medicine (FPM) submission to the Medical Services Advisory Committee (MSAC) on the Pharmacy Guild of Australia’s Chronic Pain MedsCheck trial.
Burden-of-chronic-pain-in-NZ-worse-than-diabetes-and-dementia-08-Mar-2019
FINAL MR Specialists call for better understanding of chronic pain