Call to Action - American Pain Foundation

We need your help to generate Congressional support for the passage of H.R. 1020. This is an alert from the American Pain Foundation.

Dear Endorsers of the National Pain Care Policy Act,

By signing the Consensus Statement, your organization has joined with others to show strong support for the National Pain Care Policy Act of 2005 (H.R. 1020) and the pain issues it addresses. The American Pain Foundation and the Pain Care Forum in cooperation with Representative Mike Rogers (R-MI) are pleased to announce:

A Congressional Briefing
THE EPIDEMIC OF PAIN IN AMERICA
June 13, 2006
Noon to 1pm
Cannon House Office Building
Room 121

The purpose of the briefing is to educate Congress on the serious need for federal policy reform affecting pain management. It is critical to generate large Congressional attendance, in order to:

-Increase their awareness of pain as a major public health problem
-Provide an understanding of the extensive barriers to effective pain management
-Educate congress on the critical need to improve access to pain management treatment.
-Provide information about the serious need to increase healthcare professional pain management education
-Alert them to the impact of current pain policy
-Urge congressional support for research about the causes of and treatments for pain
-Increase co-sponsorship of H.R.1020, the National Pain Care Policy Act

This is our opportunity to EDUCATE CONGRESS ON THE TRAGIC PERSONAL AND ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF THE UNDERTREATMENT OF PAIN!

TAKE ACTION NOW!
Contact your Congressional representatives and encourage them to attend this hearing. Please send email to your membership and professional network today and urge them to contact their representative about this briefing. A simple way to assist people to write their representatives is to connect to APF’s Online Advocacy Center.
https://secure2.convio.net/apf/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=155&JServSessionIdr002=6ketk6ols1.app14a

Go to www.painfoundation.org and click on Take Action Now!
It is vitally important to impress upon our elected officials that they can make a difference in the lives of millions of their constituents who are currently suffering unnecessarily.

There is strength in numbers! RSDSA, RSDHope & For Grace have endorsed HR 1020. Thank you for being part of this united effort to Eliminate the Undertreatment of Pain!