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Organisation for the Prevention of Intense Suffering (OPIS)
  • About OPIS
  • Projects
    • Access to Pain Relief
      • Burkina Faso Collaboration
    • Cluster Headaches
  • Team
  • Ethics
  • Donate
  • Get Involved
  • Resources
    • Coronavirus COVID-19
    • Tools for compassionate living
      • Vegan eating
    • References
    • Official OPIS docs
    • Compassion in education
    • Other organisations
  • News & Media
Organisation for the Prevention of Intense Suffering (OPIS)

Category: News

03/01/202303/01/2023News

New book: The Tango of Ethics

3 January 2023 The Tango of Ethics: Intuition, Rationality and the Prevention of Suffering by OPIS Executive Director Jonathan Leighton is being […]

15/12/202215/12/2022News

OPIS December 2022 Newsletter

15 December 2022 Our latest newsletter was just sent out. It contains: reflections on totalitarianism and powerful AI an update on our […]

31/08/202230/09/2022News

Front-page story in Swiss daily 20 Minutes mentioning OPIS

31 August 2022 A front-page story mentioning OPIS in the widely circulated Swiss daily paper 20 Minutes on 26 August 2022 features […]

16/12/202130/09/2022News

OPIS December 2021 Newsletter

15 December 2021 In our latest newsletter we share our work on removing legal obstacles to the effective treatment of cluster headaches; […]

31/08/202130/09/2022News

OPIS partnership with TheraPsil to support cluster headache patients in Canada in accessing psilocybin

31 August 2021 OPIS is pleased to announce that it established a partnership earlier this year with TheraPsil to support cluster headache […]

10/11/202030/09/2022News

OPIS policy paper on legalising psilocybin for cluster headaches

10 November 2020 OPIS has released a policy paper that calls for legalising access to psilocybin and related substances for the treatment […]

09/07/202009/07/2020News

OPIS July 2020 Newsletter

9 July 2020 OPIS is dedicated to getting our ethical priorities right: attending urgently to the most intense suffering and embedding this […]

08/03/2020News

New OPIS page on coronavirus COVID-19: facts and self-care

8 March 2020 OPIS has created a new page that summarises key information about the new coronavirus, how to protect yourself and […]

09/12/201930/09/2022News

Burkina Faso takes major step forward on palliative care and pain relief with successful conference

9 December 2019 The national conference on pain relief and palliative care in Burkina Faso, which OPIS co-organised last week on 2-3 […]

06/10/201905/03/2020News

OPIS co-organising national conference on palliative care & pain relief in Burkina Faso, 2-3 December 2019

6 October 2019 OPIS is pleased to announce that a national conference to promote palliative care and pain relief in Burkina Faso […]

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Site banner photo of poppy field by wazimu0 used under CC BY license; site banner photo of light on horizon by Angie Chung used under CC BY-SA license; 'chef de village' from Burkina Faso by unbettina used  under CC BY-SA license; photo of sculpture "Pain, Plate 4" by Thomas Hawk used under CC BY-NC license; drawings of chicken and human in cages, and of suffering vs happiness, by Iskra Karadzhova from animation in short film "The Battle for Compassion"; child's face by Sheena876 used under CC BY-SA license; woman's face in black & white by Mark Sebastian used under CC BY-SA license; photos of pigs on factory farms by Timo Stammberger used with permission

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