Education and advocacy on behalf of patients and doctors is a major part of the mission for the National Campaign to Protect People in Pain. The following published work can help patients stay alive and doctors stay out of jail. It is just that important!
Read Before You Bleed!
- In a major breakthrough for people in pain and their doctors, we have published two free CME Courses (DC Department of Health) for doctors and patients. The first of these courses identifies major errors of science and fact that were incorporated into the US CDC and Veterans Administration 2022 guidelines on prescription of opioids. The course has been formally accredited by the Postgraduate Institute for Medicine and is available free online here: https://ehealthhiv.org/course/view.php?id=609
The course is funded by the Government of the US District of Columbia, DC Health, HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, STD and TB Administration (HAHSTA). This offering was planned and implemented by the Postgraduate Institute for Medicine and HealthHIV.
The Postgraduate Institute for Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).
The activity provides 1.5 CME credits for physicians, nurses, pharmacists, Physician Assistants, and Social Workers. You must register with HealthHIV to take the course but it is open to patients themselves who do not wish to apply for CME credit.
NCP3 is widely and repeatedly announcing the course in online forums read by healthcare professionals.
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A second CME course was published in July 2025 to train clinicians, nurses, and others on the recommendations of the 2023 Consensus Guidelines of the American Society for Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP). This CME is also accredited by the Institute for Postgraduate Medicine. An important credibility builder for this CME is that peer review was provided by Dr. Andrea Trescot, a past President of ASIPP.
https://reduceharmdc.org/training/guidelines-for-opioids-for-chronic-non-cancer-pain/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=1ad4b68a-0e25-444f-b21e-efcf1f62d259
- The National Campaign has teamed with Dr Forest Tennant in his “Doc Toks” weekly podcasts. One of our premier resources cross-posted to that venue is a DocToks Special: Richard "Red" Lawhern, PhD, "Uncovering the Largest Healthcare Fraud in History!"
Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfDXiHVtquY
- See also “American Style Secret Skullduggery – Fatal Flaws of “Narxcare ®”: What Mark Twain Would Say About Predictive Medicine”
https://www.wjpmr.com/download/article/140092025/1759748068.pdf
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“Oversight on Revision of US CDC Guidelines: A Process Pre-Destined to Fail” Nursing and Hospital Care, ISSN 2639-9474 16 October 2023, V023; 7(5) pp 1-10
https://www.scivisionpub.com/pdfs/oversight-on-revision-of-us-cdc-opioid-guidelines-a-process-pre-destined-to-fail-2988.pdf?fbclid=IwAR29QSjcNr14RK9H9tFIRHe9BqGHrpnTyC0Ac1H--w5xIMlR2r5yUR144hk (with 47 references)
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Steven E Nadeau MD and Richard A Lawhern, PhD, “The Two Opioid Crises – Problems, Causes, and Potential Solutions: An Analytic Review”, Medical Research Archives of the European Society of Medicine, December 31, 2023
https://esmed.org/MRA/mra/article/view/4846/99193547539
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Nadeau SE, DelRocco N, Wu SS. "Opioid trials - time for a new approach. Enriched enrollment randomized gradual withdrawal designs." 2022.
https://doi.org/10.2217/pmt-2021-0112
- Monty Goddard, “A Two-Headed Monster – State Attorneys General and the Drug Enforcement Agency”, Daily Remedy, November 12, 2023, https://www.daily-remedy.com/a-two-headed-monster-state-attorneys-general-and-the-drug-enforcement-agency/
OTHER RESOURCE PAGES
Richard A Lawhern, PhD, Author Page, KevinMD – America’s most widely read and cited healthcare newsletter: https://kevinmd.com/post-author/richard-a-lawhern
Kayvan Haddadan, MD, Author Page, KevinMD - https://kevinmd.com/post-author/kayvan-haddadan
L. Joseph Parker, MD, Author Page, KevinMD - https://kevinmd.com/post-author/l-joseph-parker
Protect People in Pain -- An ongoing repository of NCP3 papers: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtectPeopleInPain/hot/
Richard A Lawhern, PhD, European Society of Medicine Author Search Page: https://esmed.org/?s=Lawhern
Google Scholar Citations for Dr Lawhern: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IhMnBsAAAAAJ&hl=en
Perplexity Search Engine: https://www.perplexity.ai/
An Ongoing Educational Resource: Doc Toks
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For those interested in recent accomplishments of the National Campaign, we publish quarterly reports to both our membership and social media newsgroups that serve over two million registered healthcare professionals.
Quarterly Report, 2025-Q3
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