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Save the Date! Our 4th Annual Scientific Meeting will be at the Hyatt Lost Pines in Bastrop, TX on October 26-28, 2012. Bring your family and join your colleagues for a weekend of fun and learning while earning CME credit! Thank you to all who were able to attend our 3rd Annual Meeting and make it such a great success! We look forward to another successful meeting.

4th National Drug Take-Back Event Success! The American people have again responded overwhelmingly to the most recent DEA-led National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. On April 28th, citizens turned in a record-breaking 552,161 pounds (276 tons) of unwanted or expired medications for safe and proper disposal at the 5,659 take-back sites that were available in all 50 states and U.S. territories. When the results of the four Take Back Days to date are combined, the DEA and its state, local, and tribal law-enforcement and community partners have removed over 1.5 million pounds (774 tons) of medication from circulation.

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History of Texas Pain Society Dr. Prithvi Raj, one of the Texas Pain Society Founding Members, was challenged last year with a very large project: to document the history of the Texas Pain Society. Without hesitation or trepidation, Dr. Raj began his work immediately. He spent hours calling members, finding photographs and sifting through files. The result of his hard work and dedication is a very insightful and polished article that can be found in this month's Pain Practice: "History of Pain: The Story of Texas Pain Society: Formation and Function of a Regional Pain Society.    


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29th Annual Pain Symposium Mark your calendars! Texas Tech's 29th Annual Pain Symposium will be held June 2-3, 2012. The purpose of the conference is to offer anesthesiologists, pain specialists, general practitioners, and other healthcare professionals current concepts in chronic and acute pain control. Emphasis will be placed on the blending of scientific knowledge into clinical practice.

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Prescription Drug Card This program is being provided to you and your family to help lower your prescription drug cost. You will receive access to savings of up to 75% (discounts average roughly 30%) at more than 54,000 national and regional pharmacies. This program has “LOWEST PRICE” logic to guarantee that you get the best deal on your prescriptions. (You pay the lower of a discount off Average Wholesale Price-AWP, discount off MAC Pricing, or Pharmacy Promotional/Retail Price.)

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Controlled Substance Log Books The Texas Controlled Substance Act makes no differentiation between samples and medicine ordered from a drug wholesaler or pharmacy. ALL controlled substances must be accounted for in a log book (numbered and bound) in addition to entries in the patient’s medical chart. Click here for more information 

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Prescription Monitoring in Texas by Krista R. Crockett, Executive Director, Texas Pain Society
The idea and implementation of a prescription monitoring program is not new to Texas, in fact the Texas Prescription Program (TPP) was created by the Texas Legislature in 1982 to monitor Schedule II controlled substance prescriptions.The need for a prescription monitoring program has increased dramatically in recent years due to what is being dubbed “generation Rx”. According to the DEA (drug fact sheet) nearly 1 in 10 high school seniors admits to abusing powerful prescription painkillers. A shocking 40 percent of teens and an almost equal number of their parents think abusing prescription painkillers is safer than abusing "street" drugs. Prescription pain relievers are new drug users’ drug of choice, vs. marijuana or cocaine.
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Welcome to the Texas Pain Society

The Texas Pain Society is a non-profit organization of over 300 pain practitioners that are involved in acute and chronic pain management of patients in Texas.

The Texas Pain Society represents the practice of pain medicine in Texas with a seat on the Texas Medical Association’s House of Delegates.

Our mission is to improve the quality of life of Texans who suffer from pain.

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