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Pain Concern’s Annual General Meeting
October 22, 2019
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Where? When? Pain Concern’s AGM will be held on 7th November 2019 at 10.30am and is open to all members of the charity. It will take place at 62-66 Newcraighall Road, Edinburgh EH15 3HS and by telephone conference. You can join in for free by phone and text. How to join in It is very easy: Contact t
Continue Reading →New Classification for Chronic Pain
September 16, 2019
The World Health Organization (WHO) has updated the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). For the first time, they have included chronic pain and provided specific pain diagnoses. Under the new system, chronic pain is classified as either chronic primary pain or chronic secondary pain.
Continue Reading →Cannabis and Chronic Pain
September 12, 2019
NICE guidance on cannabis-based medicines out for consultation The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has issued draft guidance for the use of cannabis-based medicines considering the evidence for their use in intractable nausea and vomiting; chronic pain; spastic
Continue Reading →September is Pain Awareness Month!
September 11, 2019
The World Health Assembly (WHA) – a subsection of the World Health Organization (WHO) – has declared September Pain Awareness Month. This month is dedicated to raising public awareness and understanding of pain. Many organisations around the world contribute, including the U.S. Pain Foundatio
Continue Reading →IASP Global Year against Pain in the Most Vulnerable
September 11, 2019
The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) has made 2019 their ‘Global Year against Pain in the Most Vulnerable’. The groups included in IASP’s Global Year against Pain in the Most Vulnerable are: older persons (including pain in dementia), infants and young children, individuals wit
Continue Reading →Pain Matters is now available on your computer, tablet or phone
September 10, 2019
We are delighted to announce the return of our digital version of Pain Matters Pain Matters, the magazine for people living with chronic pain, is now available digitally! You can order the latest edition and all previous edition back to issue 48 now. Subscribe quarterly or annually, or just buy a si
Continue Reading →Reclassification of Pregabalin and Gabapentin
March 18, 2019
As mentioned in the Latest News post of 17th October 2018 – and also featured in the forthcoming issue, issue 71, of Pain Matters – as of 1st April 2019, prescription drugs Pregabalin and Gabapentin are to be reclassified as Class C controlled substances. NHS England has just published u
Continue Reading →Opioid Epidemic
February 26, 2019
A recent article on the academic and current affairs website, The Conversation, by Professor Blair Smith from the University of Dundee, regarding his team’s study on the global increase in opioid use, has sparked debate over the overprescription of opioids in the UK. Professor Smith has found that w
Continue Reading →New study – Cannabinoids and chronic non-cancer pain conditions
November 05, 2018
Cannabis and Chronic Pain by John Finch The journal Pain recently published an important study on the use of cannabis, and medicines based on cannabis (cannabinoids), for chronic pain conditions (chronic pain in cancer patients was specifically excluded). Researchers were from institutes in Sydney,
Continue Reading →Government announcement: Pregabalin and gabapentin to be controlled as class C drugs
October 17, 2018
Full text: “Prescription drugs pregabalin and gabapentin are to be reclassified as class C controlled substances from next April, the government announced today (15 October). Prescription drugs pregabalin and gabapentin are to be reclassified as class C controlled substances from next April, t
Continue Reading →Pain Concern’s Support Services
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