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PAC Online Resources

 1. Congress.gov

List of US Congress Members

https://www.congress.gov/members

Legislation

https://www.congress.gov/search?q=%7B%22source%22%3A%22legislation%22%7D

Opioids

https://www.congress.gov/search?searchResultViewType=expanded&q=%7B%22source%22%3A%22legislation%22%2C%22search%22%3A%22opioids%22%2C%22bill-status%22%3A%22passed-both%22%7D

2. Ballotpedia

List of Current US Senators

https://ballotpedia.org/List_of_current_members_of_the_U.S._Congress

List of State Legislators

https://ballotpedia.org/List_of_United_States_state_legislatures

3. OpenSecrets.org

We pursue our mission largely through our award-winning website, OpenSecrets.org, which is the most comprehensive resource for federal campaign contributions, lobbying data and analysis available anywhere. And for other organizations and news media, the Center’s exclusive data powers their online features tracking money in politics – counting cash to make change.

https://www.opensecrets.org/about/

4. LegiScan

Check out this site to track legislation in your state.

LegiScan launched in 2014 to support the release of the national data service, providing the nation’s first impartial real-time legislative tracking service designed for both public citizens and government affairs professionals across all sectors in organizations large and small.

https://legiscan.com/gaits/search?state=ALL&keyword=opioid

5. Office of National Drug Control Policy

The Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) works to reduce drug use and its consequences by leading and coordinating the development, implementation, and assessment of U.S. drug policy. In addition to its vital ongoing work, ONDCP also provides administrative and financial support to the President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, established by Executive Order on March 29, 2017 by President Donald J. Trump.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/opioids/

6. JD Supra Law

Opioids

https://www.jdsupra.com/topics/opioid/

Legislation

https://www.jdsupra.com/topics/opioid/legislative-agendas/

Prescription Drugs

https://www.jdsupra.com/topics/opioid/legislative-agendas/prescription-drugs/

Pharmaceutical Industry

https://www.jdsupra.com/topics/opioid/pharmaceutical-industry/

FDA

https://www.jdsupra.com/topics/opioid/pharmaceutical-industry/fda/

Pain Management

https://www.jdsupra.com/topics/opioid/pain-management/

Health Insurance

https://www.jdsupra.com/topics/opioid/health-insurance/

7. Propublica: Nonprofit Explorer: Research Tax-Exempt Organizations

Propublica

Use this database to view summaries of 3 million tax returns from tax-exempt organizations and see financial details such as their executive compensation and revenue and expenses. You can browse IRS data released since 2013 and access over 9.6 million tax filing documents going back as far as 2001.

8. Corporate Watch

Corporate Watch is a not-for-profit co-operative providing critical information on the social and environmental impacts of corporations and capitalism. Since 1996 our research, journalism, analysis and training have supported people affected by corporations and those taking action for radical social change.

https://corporatewatch.org/about/

9. Bloomberg Search

Find People Search owns and operates a website for people search. It offers free results that include email addresses, mobile and land line phone numbers, current and previous mailing addresses and more.

https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=307775945

10. US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)

Check out press releases from the DEA

https://www.dea.gov/

https://www.dea.gov/press-releases

https://www.dea.gov/press-releases/2018/08/16/justice-department-dea-propose-significant-opioid-manufacturing-reduction

 

12. Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting

What’s FAIR?

 

FAIR, the national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986. We work to invigorate the First Amendment by advocating for greater diversity in the press and by scrutinizing media practices that marginalize public interest, minority and dissenting viewpoints. As an anti-censorship organization, we expose neglected news stories and defend working journalists when they are muzzled. As a progressive group, FAIR believes that structural reform is ultimately needed to break up the dominant media conglomerates, establish independent public broadcasting and promote strong non-profit sources of information.

https://fair.org/topic/healthcare

 

14. Resist Bot

Text the word RESIST to Resistbot on Telegram, Messenger, Twitter or to 50409 on SMS* and I’ll find out who represents you in Congress, and deliver your message to them in under 2 minutes. No downloads or apps required.

https://resist.bot/

https://ourrevolutionmn.com/bots-better-world-text-resist-50409/

15. Dollars for Docs

 

16. Report Linker Data

Datasets from best open data sources statistical bodies, government agencies, and international organizations.

Opioids

https://www.reportlinker.com/data/search?q=opioids&sector=510766%2C6257%2C514683%2C514694&geo=717

Healthcare

The healthcare industry encompasses medical products and services used to treat patients with curative, preventive, rehabilitative, and palliative care. It also includes pharmaceutical manufacturers and health insurance firms. Health services are provided by hospitals, clinics, ambulatory health care providers, and nursing homes. It also includes patient transportation and diagnostic activities. Medical products can be divided into medical supply (including medical disposables and consumables), medical equipment (medical devices and appliances), and pharmaceuticals (generic, specialty medicines, and OTC (over-the-counter) drugs).The e-healthcare sector encompasses remote monitoring devices, patient data management, and analytic tools.

https://www.reportlinker.com/data/sector/6242

 

17. Community Toolbox

Now that you’ve decided you want to be a watchdog, and determined what kind of watchdog you want to be, what’s next?  Quite a bit, as it happens.  You have to know a great deal about the issue and the entities you’re concerned with, be constantly vigilant for information, and then do something effective with that information once you have it.

http://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/advocacy/advocacy-research/act-as-watchdog/main

Conducting a Direct Action CampaignLearn how to use direct action tactics including providing personal testimony, educating decision makers, and registering voters.

http://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/advocacy/direct-action

General Rules for Organizing for Legislative Advocacy 

Learn how to design and implement a legislative advocacy campaign, keyed to specific legislative targets and goals, to support and strengthen your work.

 http://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/advocacy/direct-action/legislative-advocacy/main

 

19. Media Advocacy

Learn how to use media advocacy approaches including creating news stories and changing the media’s perspective on community issues.

http://ctb.ku.edu/en/table-of-contents/advocacy/media-advocacy

 

20. Beautiful Trouble

Direct Action

Find Your Representatives

Here you can find your representatives, how to contact them, bills they’ve introduced, committees they serve on, and political contributions they’ve received. Enter your full address below to get started.

See how candidates and committees raise and spend money in federal elections. This financial data helps voters make informed decisions.

Search Open Payments

The Open Payments Search Tool is used to search payments made by drug and medical device companies to physicians and teaching hospitals.

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This is a list of notable charitable US American foundations via Wikipedia.

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