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Pain Medicine Network Newsletter

The AAPM’s quarterly newsletter focuses on regional snapshots of Pain Medicine practice updates, liaison reports from other medical societies, and the accomplishments of committees and members. Click on the photo or links for a pdf of the current issue. All issues are ©American Academy of Pain Medicine.

Spring 2008 Pain Medicine Network Newsletter
Features:
  AAPM Annual Meeting Session Highlights
  Nat'l Association Drug Diversion Investigators
  Pregabalin: A Critical Review
  AAPM Urges Support for Military Pain Care Act
  What Your Colleagues Are Reading

February 2008 Pain Medicine Network Newsletter
Features:
  Washington State Guidelines Noncancer Pain
  Fentanyl Buccal Tablets
  AAPM & DEA Collaborate for Positive Results
  Louisiana Court Limit Pain Practice by CRNAs
  What Your Colleagues Are Reading
  Info on AAPM's New Patient Ed DVD

 
   

Fall 2007 Pain Medicine Network Newsletter (pdf download)
Features:
  Pain Medicine as a Specialty
  ABPM Seeks Residency Accreditation for Pain
  Capps-Rogers Bill Introduced
  Coding Changes for 2008
  Duloxetine: Pharmacological Overview
  What Your Colleagues Are Reading

Summer 2007 Pain Medicine Network Newsletter (pdf download)
Features:
  24th Annual Meeting Preview
  Extended-Release Epidural Morphine
  Legislative & Regulatory Affairs
  AAPM Membership Committee
  Drug Metabolism
  Scientific Abstract Call for Proposals
  What Your Colleagues Are Reading
  ABPM Certification & Recertification Info

Spring 2007 Pain Medicine Network Newsletter (pdf download)
Features:
  Annual Meeting Highlights – New Orleans
  AAPM Attends ONDCP Meeting on Prescription Drug Abuse
  Legislative and Regulatory Affairs
  2007 Presidential Commendation Award Recipients
  What Your Colleagues Are Reading
  Pain, Opioids, and Addiction: An Urgent Problem for Doctors & Patients
  Call for 2008 Awards Nominations

Winter 2007 Pain Medicine Network Newsletter (pdf download)
  Advocacy – Pain Care Coalition
  AMA Meeting – Interim Meeting Addresses Important Developments
  FDA Issues Healthcare Provider Statement on Methadone Toxicity
  2007 Coding Changes
  Product Analysis: Fentanyl Transdermal Iontophoretic System
  Pain Clinic Moratorium Issued
  What Your Colleagues Are Reading

Fall 2006 Pain Medicine Network Newsletter (pdf download)
Features:
  Looking Forward to 2007 Meeting
  Understanding Consultation Codes
  What Your Colleagues Are Reading
  Methadone: Novel & Potentially Hazardous Opioid Analgesic
  New DEA Policy Statements Explained
  AAPM Advocacy Success

Summer 2006 Pain Network Newsletter (pdf download)
Features:
  Pain & Palliative Medicine & AMA
  AAPM Educates Public about Fentalin Abuse
  Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathic Pain

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