Videos

  •  Effectiveness for Chronic Pain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4Y3TQUsH4k  This video features interviews with Drs. Mark Sullivan, Alex Cahana and Gilbert Fanciullo. The primary goal is to communicate that long-term opioid therapy is not an evidence-based treatment for chronic pain.
  • Addiction is NOT Rare in Pain Patients  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgyuBWN9D4w  This video has been revised and now features a clip of CDC Director, Dr. Thomas Frieden, interviews with Drs. Russell Portenoy*, Nathaniel Katz*, Andrew Kolodny and Thomas Kosten. The purpose  is to communicate that pain patients can become addicted to opioids and that misinformation on this topic played a role in causing the epidemic.
  • High Dose Opioid Therapy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Kso2zSxgcE  This video has been revised and now features Dr. Lynn Webster*, President-elect of the American Academy of Pain Medicine. It also includes Betty Tully and Drs. Jane Ballantyne, and Thomas Kosten. The purpose of this video is to correct the misperception that there is no upper dose limit for opioid therapy and to communicate that high dose prescribing is a dangerous practice.
  • Understanding Physical Dependence http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pILIJ9VyWAU This video has been revised and now features Dr. Mark Sullivan from the University of Washington. It also includes Betty Tully and Drs. Jane Ballantyne, and Thomas Kosten. The purpose of this video is help prescribers and the public better understand the meaning of the term physical dependence and to correct the misperception that physical dependence on opioids is benign and clinically unimportant. Asterisks (*) indicates that speaker has relationships with opioid manufacturers.
  • Nation’s Overdose by Tracy Smith 10-16-11 CBS Sunday Morning – YouTube  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QUPmD5Sa8U 
  • Prescription Drug Abuse, Dr. Andrew Kolodny, BK Independent TV http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgW7iAQoNM4
  • Canadian Mom Speaks Out
  • Dr. Petros Levounis, Member of ARPO’s Medical Advisory Board, on ABC News, April 20, 2011  (Link to video)