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Pain management is essential to patient care and quality of life. The National Academies examine treatment strategies, medications, and policy guidance for safe and effective pain control. 

Featured Publications

Featured work

Assessment of Department of Veterans Affairs Physical and Mental Health Examinations and the Department's Schedule of Rating Disabilities for Disability Compensation Claims Related to Military Sexual Trauma

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Recently Completed

Sickle Cell Disease in Social Security Disability Evaluations

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Recently Completed

Science for Judges - Development of the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence, 4th Edition

Other

Recently Completed

Government-University-Industry-Philanthropy Research Roundtable Webinars

Educational/Outreach Activity

In Progress

Examination of the Integration of Opioid and Infectious Disease Prevention Efforts in Select Programs

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Completed

Development of a Protocol to Evaluate the Concomitant Prescribing of Opioid and Benzodiazepine Medications and Veterans Deaths and Suicides

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Completed

Assessment of the Available Scientific Data Regarding the Safety and Effectiveness of Ingredients Used in Compounded Topical Pain Creams

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Completed

Temporomandibular Disorders (TMD): From Research Discoveries to Clinical Treatment

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Completed

Medication-Assisted Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Completed

Evidence-based clinical practice guidelines for prescribing opioids for acute pain

Consensus/Advisory Activity

Completed

Units

Center for Health, People, and Places (CHPP)

Oversight Unit

In Progress

Health Care and Public Health Program Area

Oversight Unit

In Progress
Extensive series of patients, doctors and nurses of various ages and ethnicities in a modern exam room. Used for: A Long COVID Definition A Chronic, Systemic Disease State with Profound Consequences

Biomedical and Health Sciences Program Area

Oversight Unit

In Progress

Forum on Drug Discovery, Development, and Translation

Roundtable/Forum

In Progress

Action Collaborative on Combatting Substance Use and Opioid Crises

Action Collaborative

In Progress

Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders

Roundtable/Forum

In Progress

Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious Illness

Roundtable/Forum

In Progress

Standing Committee to Advise the U.S. Department of State on Unexplained Health Effects on U.S. Government Employees and their Families at Overseas Embassies

Standing Committee

Completed
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