The PAINS Project

https://goo.gl/hbUXAf

Better chronic pain treatment will improve the lives of millions of Americans, save billions of dollars, and reduce opioid prescribing.

Change the beliefs, attitudes, and perceptions of media about chronic pain as a disease.

Increase media coverage and support evidence based reporting of chronic pain

Change the beliefs, attitudes, and perceptions of the media about the relationship between chronic pain and the opioid epidemic

Decrease media coverage that conflates the opioid epidemic with chronic pain