The purpose of the Chronic Pain Certification is to establish an authoritative and professional means of identifying and documenting pain cases as legitimate, so that you and/or your physician can produce this certification document in the event that the DEA challenges the legitimacy of your treatment or prescription.

This document will serve as your certification for your outpatient care. In addition NFTP maintains a 30 day inpatient Pain Treatment Program should you require it.

When certification is completed, an official and consistent medical record of your pain condition will be placed in a permanent file at NFTP, and up-dated every other year. An official certificate will be issued to you for your personal identification. This certificate will identify you to physicians, emergency rooms, medical consultants, pharmacists, and regulatory personnel, as a patient whose pain condition has been completely diagnosed and summarized, and who requires ongoing treatment for pain.

It is also the goal of the NFTP to enter into agreements with State Medical and Pharmacy Boards, and the DEA, to not only accept the certification as official, but also to safeguard pain patients by bringing regulatory actions against individuals and institutions who fail to acknowledge, treat professionally or treat adequately, holders of a chronic pain certification.