On September 13th-14th, 2001, the FDA had planned to meet in order to discuss whether or not ALL chronic pain patients would continue to be allowed to receive opiate pain medication from their doctors. This meeting is very important to the chronic pain community as a whole, and could have a huge impact on our quality of life if the FDA decides that ONLY terminal cancer patients will be allowed the use of opiate pain medications to treat their pain.

Due to our recent national tragedy, however, the FDA decided to reschedule this important meeting to a new date and time (not yet posted, but likely in the near future.)

Therefore, in an effort to do as much as we can with the time we have left, a small group of fellow chronic painers have developed a brief Pain Survey we wish for all people who experience chronic pain to take. It's very short, and should take less than 5 minutes to complete. Your anonymity and privacy are guaranteed (please see privacy policy located within survey).

We hope to gather as many replies as possible with the time we have left. Once the deadline for the new FDA meeting nears, we will collate the results that have been submitted (to date) into statistical data. This data will then be presented before the FDA's Anesthetic and Life Support Drugs Advisory Committee along with a detailed explanation of the findings.

Thank you for taking time to read this and participate in the survey. We are happy that YOUR voice will be heard on this very important issue.

NOTE: ONLY chronic pain patients who are currently being treated with opioid medication, a.k.a. "pain medicine", should fill out this survey (as that's what the FDA meeting is about).

Click here to take the survey.