I'm going to Vegas for a few days in September for PainWeek. It's a big deal in the pain management world. PainWeek.org say's PAINWeek is the largest US pain conference for frontline clinicians with an interest in pain management. PainWeek runs from September 4th to the 8th at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.
I'm going to attend a number of training sessions on interesting subjects like Pain Terminology: Knowing the Difference Makes a Difference, Full Metal Jacket: Examining the Psychedelic Side of Ketamine, and The Other Opioid Crisis: Fentanyl and Heroin.
There will also be programs by the American Pain Society, the American Society of Pain Educators, the International Pelvic Pain Society.
The National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators will have programs at PainWeek. It will be interesting to see what strategies the National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators have for dealing with the current opioid problem.
It's going to take everyone working together to solve this opioid problem. We need regulatory agencies,
health care providers, patients, and law enforcement
to work together in a spirit of cooperation rather than one of fear.
We need to find a way Do No Harm to current patients who've been on opioids for years without any problems, and set guidelines on prescribing opioids for future acute and chronic pain patients.
It should be an interesting week and I hope to learn a lot.
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