PainSAFE
About PainSAFE
The vision of the PainSAFE program is that no patient shall be harmed by pain therapies. If you have been prescribed a pain medication called an opioid (narcotic), it is important that you are certain that you are taking the medicine in the proper way. If taken in the wrong way, opioids can cause harm or even death.
If opioid use is relieving most of your pain, helping you to live and work more productively and coincides with improved mood and quality of life, it is probably the right treatment. If opioid use is causing your life to spiral out of control, and you are losing function and quality of life, it is probably doing you more harm than good. Know that alternatives are available to treat pain if opioids turn out to be the wrong treatment for you or someone you love.
Possible risks from taking opioids include:
To provide solutions to help save lives and reduce injuries from pain therapies and to ensure that these pain care options remain accessible for everyone.
If opioid use is relieving most of your pain, helping you to live and work more productively and coincides with improved mood and quality of life, it is probably the right treatment. If opioid use is causing your life to spiral out of control, and you are losing function and quality of life, it is probably doing you more harm than good. Know that alternatives are available to treat pain if opioids turn out to be the wrong treatment for you or someone you love.
Possible risks from taking opioids include:
- Addiction
- Drug abuse
- Death from overdose
- Disordered breathing during sleep
Strategic Goals
To provide solutions to help save lives and reduce injuries from pain therapies and to ensure that these pain care options remain accessible for everyone.
What is PainSAFE?
- Pain Safety & Access For Everyone (SAFE)
- PainSAFE is an educational initiative for patients, healthcare providers, and pharmacists to ensure the safe use of medications, medical devices, and other therapies for pain and to retain or expand patient access to care for these therapies.