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New Report: Alaska Gets B+ in Balanced Pain Management Policies for Cancer, Other Chronic Diseases
Anchorage, AK – August 4, 2016 – Alaska is doing well but needs to improve its policies to make pain treatment, including use of pain medications like opioids, available to cancer patients and others with serious illnesses, according to a new report funded by the American Cancer Society and its advocacy affiliate, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). Alaska is one of just seven states to improve its pain policies since 2013. The report, Achieving Balance in State Pain Policy: A Progress Report Card (CY 2015) ...
Idaho Lawmakers Have Opportunity to Save Lives and Money
... it comes to implementing policies and passing legislation to prevent and reduce suffering and death from cancer. According to the latest edition of How Do You Measure Up?: A Progress Report on State Legislative Activity to Reduce Cancer Incidence and Mortality, Idaho didn’t measure up to any of the policy recommendations in the nine issue areas. The report was released today by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). “This 16th edition of the report shows that we must do more to reduce suffering and death from cancer. One critical area where voters have ...
June 4, 2013 - How KY Scored on Pain Management Report Card
... Pain Policies Since 2008 [Frankfort, KY] - [June 4, 2013] - Kentucky needs improvement in enacting policies that enhance the delivery of effective pain management for patients battling a chronic disease such as cancer, according to a new report issued today by leading researchers and patient advocacy groups. The report gave Kentucky a letter grade of "B+" in measuring the quality and balance of its policies to make pain treatment available to patients. Nationwide, the report showed that ... Pain & Policy Studies Group (PPSG) and jointly funded the American Cancer Society, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) and LIVE STRONG Foundation. "Kentucky is showing encouraging improvement in implementing sensible policies that make the treatment of pain ...
Rhode Island Getting Mixed Reviews on Cancer Fighting Public Policies
... it comes to supporting policies and passing legislation to prevent and reduce suffering and death from cancer. According to the latest edition of How Do You Measure Up?: A Progress Report on State Legislative Activity to Reduce Cancer Incidence and Mortality, Rhode Island measured up to policy recommendations in just six of the ten issue areas ranked. The report was released today by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). "We've made tremendous progress in the way we diagnose and treat cancer across the country. But to leverage this progress, Rhode Island ...
New York State Gets a B in Pain Report Card
... NY – July 12, 2016 – New York State is doing well but there is room for improvement in enacting balanced policies that enhance the delivery of effective pain management for patients battling a chronic disease such as cancer, according to a new report issued today by leading researchers ... that while states have made considerable progress over the last decade in enacting policies that enhance access to pain care, including the use of pain medications, and minimizing potential treatment barriers, this progress has slowed, and in some states declined, in recent years. The ... to patients. The report, Achieving Balance in State Pain Policy: A Progress Report Card (CY 2015) , shows the extent that state policies can support pain management and patient care. The University of Wisconsin Pain & Policy Studies Group (PPSG) prepared the report, which was jointly ...