Pain is vastly under treated in America and pain patients face many barriers to receiving adequate care. The National Foundation for the Treatment of Pain is a not for profit organization, which seeks to accomplish comprehensive and effective medical treatment and social justice for all who are involved with legitimate medical pain. Patients, their families, the doctors who treat them, the pharmacists who fill their prescriptions, the manufacturers who produced the drugs and the insurance companies and agencies which pay for it all, are the target population for membership in the Foundation.

To accomplish adequate care for those in pain, the National Foundation has ten essential goals. It has a strategic plan to accomplish them, a significant part of which is already under way. It has established a plan for assuring adequate care for patients in pain.

No other existing organization has this focus. All current organizations concerned with Pain are highly specialized in their focus, associations of medical and related professionals, or affiliated with institutions of higher learning. Their focus has been on issues of research, policy and education. The National Foundation is a consortium of all the forces involved, including legislative and law enforcement, to accomplish major change in the national treatment of acute, chronic, intractable, malignant and non-malignant pain. Further, it is the only organization in the United States which pain patients may call for direct intervention and help. It daily responds to the specific needs of individual pain patients, while simultaneously working to affect public policy.