Suggested Reading

Clinical Guidelines

• Guidelines for Cancer Pain Management in Substance Misusers
• ICSI Health Care Guideline: Adult Low Back Pain
• Evidence-Based Guideline: Treatment of Painful Diabetic Neuropathy
• Comprehensive Consensus Based Guidelines on Intrathecal Drug Delivery Systems in the Treatment of Pain Caused by Cancer Pain Guidelines
• Canadian Guideline for Safe and Effective Use of Opioids for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain
• VA/DOD Guidelines for Managing Opioid Therapy
• Practice Guidelines for Chronic Pain Management: An Updated Report by the American Society of Anesthesiologists Task Force on Chronic Pain Management and the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
• Clinical Guidelines for the Use of Chronic Opioid Therapy in Chronic Noncancer Pain
• Guidelines for Controlled Trials of Drugs in Tension-type Headache: Second Edition International Headache Society
• The Pharmacological Management of Persistent Pain in Older Persons (2009) Guideline The American Geriatrics Society
• Getting Started: Guidelines and Suggestions for those Starting a Hospice / Palliative Care Service 2nd Edition
• Clinical Guideline Number 9 AHCPR Publication No. 94-0592
• Agency for Health Care Policy and Research Clinical Practice Guidelines Manejo del Dolor por Cancer (In Spanish)

Reports

• Relieving Pain in America: A Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Care, Education, and Research
• A Call to Revolutionize Chronic Pain Care in America: An Opportunity in Health Care Reform Mayday Fund Report

Legal and Regulatory

• DEA Ready To Recognize LTC Nurse As Agent Of The Prescriber
• Secure and Responsible Drug Disposal Act of 2010
• Electronic Prescribing of Controlled Substance - DEA Interim Final Rule
• Model Policy for the Use of Controlled Substances for the Treatment of Pain
  ©Copyright May 2004 by the Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States, Inc.
• CFR Title 21 Chapter II
  (folder contains individual Sections 1300 to 1316 as PDFs)
  Code of Federal Regulations. 21 CFR Ch. II (4-1-02 Edition).

Associations

• The American College of Rheumatology Preliminary Diagnostic Criteria for Fibromyalgia and Measurement of Symptom Severity
• Family Caregivers, Patients and Physicians: Ethical Guidance to Optimize Relationships
  American College of Physicians
• The IAHPC Manual of Palliative Care 2nd Edition
• ASAM Public Policy Statement Office-based Opioid Agonist Treatment (OBOT)
• ASAM Public Policy Statement Rapid and Ultra Rapid Opioid Detoxification

Drug Abuse Reports

• Drugs, Brains, and Behavior: The Science of Addiction
  National Institute on Drug Abuse
  Reprinted February 2008
• Treatment Episode Data Set (TEDS) Highlights - 2007
  National Admissions to Substance Abuse Treatment Services
  SAMHSA
  April 1, 2009
• The National Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention Strategy (2009)
  The Center for Lawful Access and Abuse Deterrence (CLAAD) and the Human Resources
  Development Institute, Inc. (HRDI)

Other Articles

• KnowPain-50: A Tool for Assessing Physician Pain Management Education
• Prescribing controlled substances in long-term care: Tips for practicing clinicians on the go
• The concept of addiction in law and regulatory policy related to pain management: a critical review
• Hypermedia Assistant for Cancer Pain Management
• Achieving the Right Balance in Oversight of Physician Opioid Prescribing for Pain:
  The Role of State Medical Boards.
  Hoffmann DE, Tarzian AJ. J Law Med Ethics. 2003;31(1):21-40.
• Disciplinary Actions and Pain Relief: Analysis of the Pain Relief Act
  Johnson SH. J Law Med Ethics. 1996;24(4):319-327.
• Controlled substances and pain management:
  Regulatory oversight, formularies, and cost decisions.
  Pisano DJ. J Law Med Ethics. 1996;24(4):310-316.
• Opioid therapy for chronic nonmalignant pain: Clinicians'perspective.
  Portenoy RK. J Law Med Ethics. 1996;24(4):296-309.