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American Pain Society
FormationMarch 6, 1977 (1977-03-06)
DissolvedJune 2019 (2019-06)
TypeMultidisciplinary community of scientists, clinicians and other professionals
Headquarters8735 W. Higgins Road, Suite 300, Chicago, IL 60631
Membership
>2,500
Official language
English
President
Roger Fillingim, PhD
Key people
Chief Executive Officer: Carly Reisner
Websitehttps://web.archive.org/web/20190829194735/http://americanpainsociety.org/

The American Pain Society (APS) was a professional membership organization and a national chapter of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP). The organization closed in 2019 amid the opioid epidemic as the organization faced allegations that it colluded with opioid producers to promote opioids.[1]

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Back pain

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Pain management

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prescribing opioids for chronic pain have been issued by the American Pain Society and the American Academy of Pain Medicine. Included in these guidelines...

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amount of pain experienced and the degree to which it interferes with daily life; and the American Institute of Medicine and the American Pain Society support...

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Chronic pain

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"Medications for acute and chronic low back pain: a review of the evidence for an American Pain Society/American College of Physicians clinical practice guideline"...

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Spinal manipulation

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improvement. In 2007 the American College of Physicians and the American Pain Society jointly recommended that clinicians consider spinal manipulation...

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The Journal of Pain

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following the bankruptcy of the American Pain Society, the newly formed United States Association for the Study of Pain purchased the journal. According...

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Purdue Pharma

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Timeline of the opioid epidemic

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chronic non-cancer pain. As part of this campaign, Purdue provided financial support to the American Pain Society, the American Academy of Pain Medicine, the...

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Muscle relaxant

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treatment of low back pain: a joint clinical practice guideline from the American College of Physicians and the American Pain Society". Ann. Intern. Med...

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Knee pain

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Comparison of MD and DO in the United States

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Pain management in children

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Pain: A Clinical Practice Guideline From the American Pain Society, the American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, and the American Society...

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Cicely Saunders

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"Total pain: the work of Cicely Saunders and the hospice movement". American Pain Society Bulletin. 10 (4): 13–15. "A holistic approach to pain". Nursing...

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Acting Analgesic, at the 25th Annual Scientific Meeting of The American Pain Society". PR Newswire. 6 June 2006. Archived from the original on 2012-02-07...

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Opioid

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in neurology. It is the official publication of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal...

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Pain scale

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Intractable pain

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