Our Mission

  • To facilitate peer support and education for individuals with chronic pain and their families so that these individuals may live more fully in spite of their pain.
  • To raise awareness among the health care community, policy makers, and the public at large about issues of living with chronic pain.


Please use our valuable resources:

New! What you need to know about fibromyalgia.New! What you need to know about fibromyalgia.

Five-minute relaxation guide.Five-minute relaxation guide.

It Takes NerveIt Takes Nerve
The AgrAbility Project: Growing Well With Pain
The AgrAbility Project: Growing Well with Pain
Penney Cowan talks about chronic pain and pain management with farmers and ranchers.
ACPA Chronicle on lineACPA Chronicle on line
In Case of Emergency - What to Expect & How to Prepare:
What you need to know if you have to go to the emergency department..



Tip of the Week
California college students recently created and posted this video to call attention to the under treatment of pain. Watch it here and share it with your friends! Click to watch.
ACPA Forums
Knowledge is an important pain management tool. To help you learn as much as you can about pain, the ACPA will soon offer a new segment on our web page, ACPA Forums.

Each Forum will deal with a pain-related topic shaped by your questions. Answers will be provided by health-care professionals in training at leading universities---future MDs, NPs, PAs, pharmacists, and more---and be reviewed by their professors before posting.

To learn more and submit a question, click here.
Recent News
Follow Directions: How to Use Methadone Safely
ACPA Consumer Guide to Pain Medication and Treatments
House passed the Pain Care Policy Act of 2009
Patient Advocate Foundation’s Co-Pay Relief Program (CPR)
Events Calendar
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5/2/2009
American Association od Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting
5/7/2009
American Pain Society Annual Scientific Meeting
5/15/2009
American Thorascic Society Internation Conference
5/23/2009
American Academy of Physician Assistance Annual Conference

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