The American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) has endorsed the Department of Health & Human Services’ (HHS’s) National Pain Strategy (NPS), a blueprint two years in the making to “reduce the burden of pain for individuals, families and society as a whole.”
Daniel B. Carr, MD, the current president of the AAPM, stated that it is not often that the group makes such a formal endorsement. According to Dr. Carr, the first-ever federal initiative to coordinate the