NDLA Organizers Forum: Chronic Pain, Opioids, and Disability

…listserv for discussion on these issues. It’s organizersforum@yahoogroups.com; please go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/organizersforum/ and click “Join this group!” We also have our separate announcement-only listserv to allow everyone to easily get notices about the Organizer’s Forum, called disabilityorganizing@googlegroups.com. Please email us to be added.We also have a Facebook page! We can use this is a way to continue our conversation b…

DREDF Testimony by Marilyn Golden, Senate Health Committee 3-25-2015 re SB 128

…ht to die, and – thankfully – was rebuffed,” October 4, 2011, available at http://articles.boston.com/2011-10-04/bostonglobe/30243525_1_suicide-doctor-ballot-initiative (accessed March 23, 2015). Mass Against Assisted Suicide, “John Norton: A Cautionary Tale”: www.massagainstassistedsuicide.org/2012/09/john-norton-cautionary-tale.html Erin Barnett, A family struggle: Is Mom capable of choosing to die? Oregonian, Oct. 17, 1999. Transcript of tape o…

Public Comment On Proposed Opioid Prescription Policy Under the Oregon Health Plan

…n Opioid Overdoses to US Emergency Departments (Jama Intern Med, Dec 2014) https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/1918924 [5] McCarberg BH, et al., The impact of pain on quality of life and the unmet needs of pain management: results from pain sufferers and physicians participating in an Internet survey (Am J Ther 2008) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18645331 [6] Bair MJ, et al., Depression and pain comorbidity: a l…

NDY Public Comment on CDC Draft Updated Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids

…ioners-and-scientists-comment-on-oregon-forced-taper-proposal-8836865.html https://advocacymonitor.com/summary-of-the-draft-updated-guideline/ https://uploads.documents.cimpress.io/v1/uploads/e5010620-826f-4089-904d-cc801f268277~110/original?tenant=vbu-digital Schatman, M. et al., U.S. Chronic Pain Practitioners and Scientists Comment on Oregon Forced Taper Proposal (National Pain Report,July 31, 2018) http://nationalpainreport.com/u-s-chronic-pai…

NDY Public Comment To Virginia Joint Commission on Health Care Opposing Assisted Suicide Legislation

…e, Fabian, Hidden problems with the Oregon assisted suicide law uncovered, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xOZfLFrvuQcazZfFudEncpzp2b18NrUo/view; Diabetics eligible for physician-assisted suicide in Oregon, state officials say, Jan 11, 2018, https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jan/11/diabetics-eligible-physician-assisted-suicide-oreg/ [3] https://dredf.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Revised-OR-WA-Abuses.pdf [4] https://dredf.org/wp-content/…