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Crafting Your Message
Feel free to use the materials provided at the bottom of this page to craft your message (i.e. email, phone call).
Below are a few suggestions for current topics to address in your message to local and state representatives.
Pro Tip: Make it personal
Feel free to use the materials provided at the bottom of this page to craft your message (i.e. email, phone call).
Below are a few suggestions for current topics to address in your message to local and state representatives.
ProTip: Make it personal
Crafting Your Message
Cuts to NIH
Cuts to NIH will devastate the health science community and infrastructure, particularly support for pain research which is a disabling factor in almost every disease/illness/disorder and therefore crosses every institute
NIH infrastructure
Due to its complexity and need for input and expertise from multiple institutes, the NIH infrastructure is critical to continuing to build historically under-funded pain research and advance our knowledge and treatments to address the disabling and costly problem of chronic pain
HEAL Initiative
The HEAL Initiative, started in 2018, has expanded funding, improved our knowledge, and addressed the urgent need for non-opioid and non-pharmacological treatments for pain in just 8 years. Maintain this line item in the FY 2026 NIH budget at the FY2025 level ($640M)
Cuts to indirect costs
The proposed cuts to indirect costs will devastate research institutions, local economies, and employment throughout the US
Trainees
NIH, NSF, and VA funds for training to encourage the best of the next generation to pursue science and health careers in the US rather than alternative careers (finance or business) or leaving the US
Possible topics to address in your message
Op-Eds by Members
What Medicaid Cuts Mean for Chronic Pain— Untreated childhood pain follows to adulthood by Monica L. Gremillion, PhD, Jacqueline N. Warner, PhD, and Jocelyn Gomez, PsyD (May 29, 2025)
What's Lost if We 'Play the Game' to Get Research Funding?
— Our journey to understand and treat childhood pain in a new reality by Sarah Nelson, PhD, and Natoshia R. Cunningham, PhD (May 17, 2025)
Trump is cutting research that helps Americans deal with severe pain | Opinion By Juan M. Hincapie-Castillo (April 10, 2025)
