The Time to Act is Now!

RSDSA is supporting H.R. 1020 Bill that will establish an Office of Pain at the National Institute of Health. We have just received word from the American Pain Foundation (APF) that a critical hearing on Chronic Pain, which we anticipated would be in January, is the TOMORROW!

The House Sub-Committee on Health will be holding a hearing this Thursday December 8th at 10 a.m. in the Rayburn Building (HOB 2123) entitled "Improving America's Health: Examining Federal Research Efforts for Pulmonary Hypertension and Chronic Pain." We want the best outcomes from this hearing and are asking you to contact your Congressional representatives (especially members of the Subcommittee on Health) and encourage them to attend this hearing.

Please contact your representative about this hearing. A simple way to to write your representatives is to connect to APF's Advocacy Center:
http://www.painfoundation.org/page.asp?file=Action/intro.htm

The members of the Subcommittee on Health are listed here as well.
If you are able to travel to D.C. on Thursday, we are encouraging as many pain patients, advocates, and professionals to attend the hearing.

Please contact Michelle Lonchar at the APF (410) 783-7292, Ex. 306) if you plan on attending so they are sure to have enough room.

It is vitally important for Congress to hear from everyone who is concerned about improving pain care in America. The time to act is NOW. Do not allow this opportunity to slip away. We may not get another chance to stress how the undertreatment of pain, as a national health crises, is causing undue suffering all around us.