Welcome to the National Campaign To Protect People in Pain

ncp3.org and nc3p-advocates.org are the online “home” of a national and international campaign.  We are united in our determination to see an end of stigma and discrimination against people in pain, their personal care givers, and clinicians who treat them.  We are entirely in agreement with public statements of six Nationally prominent medical professional groups representing over 560,000 clinicians and medical students:  it is time to “remove political interference from the delivery of evidence based medicine.”

In support of that objective, we offer the following resources, linked from the top-level menu bar on each of our pages:

Home:  This top-level page

Mission/About:   An expanded description of who we (the National Campaign and our Speakers’ Bureau) are, and what we are all about.

Educate Yourself (and others):  This collection of key papers by our Speakers Bureau and others challenges the prevailing fraudulent narratives of US and State public health authorities who falsely proclaim that America’s opioid crisis was caused by doctors “over-prescribing” to their patients. Also included are links to two free online courses in Continuing Medical Education for both clinicians and their patients. These courses are accredited by the prestigious Postgraduate Institute for Medicine.

Finding Doctors:  a place to nominate a doctor, pharmacist, or other clinician as a competent and qualified practitioner in pain medicine or addiction medicine, who is also accepting new patients.  Also a place to request referral to such a practitioner.

Note: This information is being maintained off-site. Identities of patients and clinical professionals will be held private unless you provide permission to make them public.    Identities of both patients and clinical professionals will never be publicly released.  National Campaign administrators will forward patient nominations or inquiries to healthcare providers who have agreed to participate and whose identities have been verified.   

Expert Witnesses:  Several members and affiliates of the National Campaign can advise you concerning effective representation in adversarial proceedings (State Board actions against clinicians, DoJ, DEA, or State law enforcement persecution, Insurance company arbitration proceedings, etc.) Likewise, this section of the website provides access to a 100-chart draft presentation titled “Defending Doctors In Adversarial Proceedings.” We invite doctors and lawyers to review this presentation and to provide feedback by private email. 

Action Initiatives:    We will train you to demand that they introduce legislation protecting doctors from persecution and patients from the destruction of their lives by bad public health policy.  We are in active dialog with a number of State Boards, and hope to expand these dialogs to other States in the coming year.

Share Your Story:  Tell us and others how you or people you know have been injured by policies that restrict the ability of physicians to provide safe and effective pain management.  With your permission, we will edit and publish your narratives on our website. With your permission, we will edit and publish your narratives on our website. Your names and locations will not be disclosed unless you provide explicit permission.

Join NCP3:  Sign up to receive our frequent newsletters and to participate in patient-to-patient blogs when we deploy them.

Donate:  The National Campaign To Protect People in Pain is now in the process of incorporating itself in North Carolina as a 401-3-(D) Non-Profit Organization. Your donations will be applied to travel and lodging expenses for members to attend key conferences across the US, and to represent patient interests in advocacy for changes to public health policy.  Fees incurred for hosting this website will also be defrayed from such donations.

For Questions or Comments Contact:  Red Lawhern or Jonelle Elgaway