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Share September as Drug-free Pain Management Awareness Month with your patients

Chiropractic Economics September 15, 2021

Chiropractors have an opportunity this month through social media, e-newsletters and other patient outreach to spread the message of Drug-free Pain Management Awareness Month.

Statistics include:

  • The U.S. is on pace to officially surpass a record-breaking 90,000 opioid deaths in 2020
  • In December 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a press release linking the significant mental health and economic disruption caused by COVID-19 to a record 81,000 deaths between May 2019 and May 2020
  • Harmful medication-related incidents occurred 42 times more often in senior patients who were first prescribed opioids as opposed to patients who first received spinal manipulative therapy
  • Patients with spinal pain who saw a chiropractor had half the risk of filling an opioid prescription
  • We are losing 136 people a day from opioid overdoses
  • The total economic burden of prescription opioid misuse alone in the U.S. is estimated around $78.5 billion a year
  • An estimated 80% of all Americans will experience some form of back pain during their lifetime
  • The Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO) published recommendations to manage low back pain initially with non-pharmaceutical interventions, such as spinal manipulation (chiropractic adjustments), while avoiding opioids, spinal injections and surgery

The states of Ohio, Alaska, Vermont and Florida have proclaimed September as Drug-free Pain Management Awareness Month, and Attorney General Ashley Moody signed the Florida resolution at FCA’s The National during the F4CP’s Pre-Conference Symposium, Dose of Reality.

You can also contact your local legislative body (board of supervisor or city council) requesting a proclamation in your city/town/state to designate September as Drug-Free Pain Management Awareness Month. To download a template letter click here or for more resources click here.

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Filed Under: Chiropractic News, News Tagged With: chiropractic, Drug Free Pain Management Awareness Month, F4CP, FCA

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