International Stakeholder Community of Pain Experts and Leaders Call for an Urgent Action on Forced Opioid Tapering

Affiliations

• ¹ Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (by courtesy), Palo Alto, California.
• ² Division of Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
• ³ Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.
• ⁴ Division of Pain Medicine, Stanford Systems Neuroscience and Pain Lab, Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, Neurosciences and Neurology (by courtesy), Palo Alto, California.
• ⁵ Colorado Center for Behavioral Medicine, Colorado Pain Society, Denver, Colorado.
• ⁶ Stanford University School of Medicine.
• ⁷ Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon.
• ⁸ Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
• ⁹ University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah.
• ¹⁰ Addiction Medicine, Salt Lake City VA Health Care System, Salt Lake City, Utah.
• ¹¹ Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
• ¹² Law & Health Care Program, University of Maryland Carey School of Law.
• ¹³ Psychology Department, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• ¹⁴ Birmingham VA Medical Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Opioid Safety Initiative, Opiate Advice Team, Opioid Risk Mitigation Team, Birmingham, Alabama.
• ¹⁵ Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
• ¹⁶ American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC.
• ¹⁷ Alliance for the Treatment of Intractable Pain.
• ¹⁸ ADAadep, Boulder, Colorado.
• ¹⁹ University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• ²⁰ University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• ²¹ Pain Medicine Physicians of British Columbia, Canada.
• ²² Northern Anesthesia & Pain Medicine, LLC, Eagle River, Alaska.
• ²³ Alaska Society of Interventional Pain Physicians.
• ²⁴ Pain Management Center, Stanford University.
• ²⁵ University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
• ²⁶ Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Australia.
• ²⁷ Academy of Integrative Pain Management, Sonora, California.
• ²⁸ Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, Kansas.
• ²⁹ Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois.
• ³⁰ National Changhua University of Education, Changhua, Taiwan, Republic of China.
• ³¹ Frisco, Colorado.
• ³² Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
• ³³ Division Pain Medicine, Stanford Health Care, Redwood City, California.
• ³⁴ SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, New York.
• ³⁵ Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
• ³⁶ Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
• ³⁷ Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
• ³⁸ Integrative Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
• ³⁹ University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
• ⁴⁰ Long School of Medicine, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas.
• ⁴¹ American Chronic Pain Association, Rocklin, California.
• ⁴² Palliative & Supportive Care, Orlando Health UF Health Cancer Center, Orlando, Florida.
• ⁴³ Flamingo Pain Specialists, PLLC, Las Vegas, Nevada.
• ⁴⁴ International Pain Foundation.
• ⁴⁵ Arizona Pain Society.
• ⁴⁶ Program of Excellence in Addictions Research (Pain Self-Management/Opioid Use Disorder), Washington State University, Spokane, Washington.
• ⁴⁷ College of Nursing, Washington State University, Spokane, Washington.
• ⁴⁸ Palliative Care, University of Iowa College of Pharmacy, Iowa City, Iowa.
• ⁴⁹ Hunter Integrated Pain Service, John Hunter Hospital Campus, Newcastle, Australia.
• ⁵⁰ CPO Transformation, Anthem, Inc.
• ⁵¹ College of Dentistry.
• ⁵² Pain Research & Intervention Center of Excellence, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
• ⁵³ Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Albany, New York.
• ⁵⁴ Western New England University College of Pharmacy, Springfield, Massachusetts.
• ⁵⁵ Advanced PACT Pain Clinic, Hampton VA Medical Center, Hampton, Virginia.
• ⁵⁶ VA New England Mental Illness, West Haven, Connecticut.
• ⁵⁷ Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Virginia.
• ⁵⁸ Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
• ⁵⁹ Veteran of the United States Navy, Air Medical Physician's Association, Medical Missions Outreach.
• ⁶⁰ Urban Recovery Center, Silver Hill Hospital, New Canaan, Connecticut.
• ⁶¹ Chronic Pain and Recovery Center, Silver Hill Hospital, New Canaan, Connecticut.
• ⁶² Critical Access Hospital Specialist in Hospice & Palliative Care, Cook Hospital & Care Center, Cook, Minnesota.
• ⁶³ Arachnoiditis Research Team, Texas Women's University.
• ⁶⁴ Health Policy & Management, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.
• ⁶⁵ Northern California Association of Pain Psychologists.
• ⁶⁶ Door To Door Doctors, Milbridge, Maine.
• ⁶⁷ Diplomat in Clinical Social Work, Portland, Oregon.
• ⁶⁸ The Alliance for the Treatment for Intractable Pain.
• ⁶⁹ Arizona Pain and Spine, Mesa, Arizona.
• ⁷⁰ Central Pain Nerve Center.
• ⁷¹ Department of Physical Therapy, Academy of Geriatric Physical Therapy, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
• ⁷² White River Heath Care, PC, Muncie, Indiana.
• ⁷³ School of Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana.
• ⁷⁴ AIPM.
• ⁷⁵ NEIGlobal.
• ⁷⁶ AAPS.
• ⁷⁷ Yakima, Washington.
• ⁷⁸ Mission Viejo, California.
• ⁷⁹ Southern Behavioral Medicine Associates PLLC, Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
• ⁸⁰ Institute of Clinical Excellence, STAND The Haiti Project, Portland, Oregon.
• ⁸¹ End of Life, Psychiatric and Mental Health Nurse, Long Term Care, Education, Alliance for the Treatment of Intractable Pain, Akron, Ohio.
• ⁸² Pain Out Loud, Austin, Texas.
• ⁸³ #360DxTx.
• ⁸⁴ TheButterflyProtocol.
• ⁸⁵ CALHN Pain Management Unit, Woodville, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
• ⁸⁶ Faculty of Pain Medicine, ANZCA.
• ⁸⁷ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington.
• ⁸⁸ Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.
• ⁸⁹ Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia.
• ⁹⁰ Gateway Psychiatric Group, St. Louis, Missouri.
• ⁹¹ The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
• ⁹² ATIP.
• ⁹³ Department of Public Health & Community Medicine, Boston Pain Care, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
• ⁹⁴ AIHM, Private Medical Practice, Las Vegas, Nevada.
• ⁹⁵ Nevada Docs Care LLC, Las Vegas, Nevada.
• ⁹⁶ CAW360 Network.
• ⁹⁷ Virginia Health Psychology.
• ⁹⁸ Division of General Pediatrics, Grayken Center for Addiction, Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
• ⁹⁹ Pain Section, James A Haley Veterans' Hospital, Tampa, Florida.
• ¹⁰⁰ Department of Psychology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.
• ¹⁰¹ Fort Myers, Florida.
• ¹⁰² Stanford Pain Management Center.
• ¹⁰³ Christus St. Vincent, Acute Pain Service.
• ¹⁰⁴ Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy Syndrome Association.
• ¹⁰⁵ Pro-Activity.
• ¹⁰⁶ Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, Palo Alto, California.
• ¹⁰⁷ Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
• ¹⁰⁸ Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative, and Pain Medicine, Palo Alto, California.
• ¹⁰⁹ Clinical Department of Family & Community Medicine, UT Health, San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas.
• ¹¹⁰ Division of Behavioral Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, UT Health, San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas.
• ¹¹¹ Mental Health- Private Practice, Alliance for the Treatment of Intractable Pain, Huntington, West Virginia.
• ¹¹² Department of Pharmacy Practice and Science, University of Iowa College of Pharmacy, Iowa City, Iowa.
• ¹¹³ Anesthesiology & Pain Management, Interventional Pain Medicine, Cahaba Pain & Spine Care, Hoover, Alabama.
• ¹¹⁴ Central Adelaide Local Health Network, Australian Pain Society.
• ¹¹⁵ Massachusetts Pain Initiative Legislative Council Leadership Advisory Group, ABMS ABA Diplomat in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Newton Center, Massachusetts.
• ¹¹⁶ Internal Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
• ¹¹⁷ Academy of Prevention & Health Promotion Therapies, Jersey LiveWell and Jersey Physical Therapy, Princeton, New Jersey.
• ¹¹⁸ Pain Research Forum, RELIEF, Scientific American, Claremont, California.
• ¹¹⁹ Arachnoiditis Research Group, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
• ¹²⁰ Department of Psychiatry, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon.