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          Date of Hearing:   August 8, 2016


                             ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON RULES


                              Richard S. Gordon, Chair


          SCR  
                        154 (Liu) - As Introduced June 15, 2016


          SENATE VOTE:  38-0


          SUBJECT:  Pain Awareness Month and Women in Pain Awareness Day


          SUMMARY:  Recognizes the month of September 2016 as Pain  
          Awareness Month and also recognizes September 23, 2016, as Women  
          In Pain Awareness Day.  Specifically, this resolution makes the  
          following legislative findings: 


          1)More than 100 million Americans live with chronic pain caused  
            by various diseases or disorders, and each year, nearly 25  
            million Americans suffer with acute pain.

          2)Though medical knowledge and technology exist to relieve or  
            greatly ease pain, most pain is untreated, undertreated, or  
            improperly treated, and many health care professionals are  
            still unaware of how to effectively treat pain.

          3)Women have a higher prevalence than men of chronic pain  
            syndromes and diseases associated with chronic pain, such as  
            fibromyalgia, complex pain syndrome, and osteoarthritis, and  
            women respond differently to certain analgesics.

          4)Women more frequently report pain to a health care provider,  
            but are more likely to have their pain reports discounted as  
            emotional or psychogenic and, therefore, not real.








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          5)The California-based Partners for Understanding Pain is a  
            coalition of pain sufferers, physicians, nurses, social  
            workers, pharmacists, therapists, civic leaders, nonprofit  
            organizations, and health care businesses whose mission is to  
            improve the quality of life for people in California  
            experiencing pain. 
          FISCAL EFFECT:  None


          REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION:


          Support


          None on file


          Opposition
          None on file


          Analysis Prepared by:Nicole Willis / RLS. / (916) 319-2800