PROP’s Jane Ballantyne and Mark Sullivan have a new paper in Journal of Pain: “Is Chronic Pain a Disease?” that argues there are many iatrogenic harms of declaring chronic pain to be a disease.

In the 1990s, pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies, and pain doctors endorsed opioids as pain relievers for many common conditions, including chronic pain conditions such as osteoarthritis. They fraudulently stated that opioids were safe to use and did not have high […]

Drs. Mark Dube and Henry Chapeskie present an informative history of opioid use, how we arrived at where we are in the epidemic, and why opioids are not indicated for non-cancer pain. Opioids: The Big Picture – YouTube

Critics have long argued that the AMA uses its white-coated prestige as a veneer to advocate on behalf of the medical industry—whose interests are, at times, diametrically opposed to those of the public’s health. Since the initial development and release […]

PROP News Release:   Prescription opioids continue to contribute to the rise in drug overdose deaths    PROP applauds the Biden administration for promulgating guidelines that will help expand access to evidence-based medication assisted treatment for opioid use disorder.1  Treatment, […]

Published in the Annals of Surgery, researchers found similar patient outcomes from post-surgical patients who were not prescribed opioids and opioid prescribed patients. Satisfaction rates were no different in non-opioid prescribed patients compared to opioid prescribed patients. Based upon the […]