DEA: a Psychological Terror Group
Blog entry by Siobhan Reynolds, president Pain Relief Network. First paragraph: "This essay, excerpted below, by Law Enforcement Against Prohibition ([LEAP][leap]) blogger James Anthony focuses on...
View ArticleDEA Regulates Medicine archives
Archive with links to testimony, supplemental documents, video interviews, and radio interviews related to House of Representatives Subcommittee on Crime hearings on "DEA's Regulation of Medicine" in...
View ArticleDear VA: This is Pain Care?
Experience of chronic pain patient with gross undertreatment of pain, and substandard medical care in general, at the hands of VA medical providers. Related posts: The ‘Bounds of Medical Practice’ and...
View Article“Cops and Doctors” gets it Wrong
Blogged analysis by DeLuca about a confused opinion article in Wall Street Journal regarding the relationship between law enforcement imperatives on doctors and the resulting routine undermedication of...
View ArticleSchneider Patients Claim Gov’t Harassment
Former patients of a federally indicted Haysville doctor say they are being intimidated by the federal government. Stephen and Linda Schneider, of Haysville, are behind bars facing federal charges of...
View ArticleWanted: A Public Health Approach to Prescription Opioid Abuse and Diversion
In this full text medical journal article, Joranson, in response to Paulozzi (below), describes a basic public health approach to the 'drug abuse crisis.' One wonders whether the combined brain power...
View ArticlePrescription Drug Propaganda
Blog post about an example of war on doctors Trash Journalism, which is analyzed. Excerpt: "So what is the message? Well one clear message to me is that the line between pain patient and 'addict' -...
View ArticleIt’s About the Pain Crisis…
Network, protesting a scandalous article by the paper about PRN's involvement in the Dr. Schneider case. Excerpt: "In our movement to reestablish rule of law and to normalize the doctor-patient...
View ArticleOther People Get It videos
Other People Get It - a War on Doctors/Pain Crisis YouTube Playlist. Seven drug war/pain crisis related videos, not directly Pain Relief Network related, that I like or think are otherwise worthwhile....
View ArticleAffirmation of States’ Authority to Define “Legitimate Medical Practice”
This Resource Is a peer-reviewed analysis of Gonzalez v Oregon. "If the U.S. Attorney General had won this case, DOJ, through the DEA, would have been given the authority to make decisions about the...
View ArticlePain Killer
This Resource Is an article by Dr. Frank Fisher published in the Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin. He recounts his tale of persecution for practicing excellent pain management - a quintessencial example...
View ArticleThe Politics of Pain
Press release from the Competitive Enterprise Institute regarding their Politics of Pain initiative, and video interviews with combat vet chronic pain patient James Fernandez, and with Dr. Alex DeLuca...
View ArticleUntreated Pain as Serious as Drug Abuse
Experts: Untreated pain as serious a problem drug abuse. By Tristan Scott of the Missoulian. With the specter of prescription drug abuse looming large, health care workers stressed Friday that...
View ArticleDr. Rosa Martinez: New Charges?
Update on the case of USA v Dr. Martinez in Washington state. Martinez has been acquitted of all drug crime charges. The fraud charges remaining after her 2007 fed trial have also been dismissed, but...
View ArticleHurwitz Released – Challenge of Drug Misuse
I spoke to Billy's wife briefly, recently, and am very happy to be able to report that Dr. Hurwitz is no longer in federal prison. He is currently in a half-way house in D.C. and will be transitioning...
View ArticleTreatment of Pain and Substance Abuse
Unrelieved pain has a devastating impact on the physical, emotional, social, and economic well being of patients and their families. Diagnosing and treating pain is, therefore, fundamental to the...
View ArticleCivil Liberties Implications of Our Nation’s Approach to ‘Drug Control’
There are so many who need opioid pain medications and can not get them... These people have their lives destroyed every day as they drag themselves from doctor to doctor being lied to, verbally and...
View ArticleThe Reeking Soul of US Justice
criticisms and description of federal prosecutorial behavior rings true to me from my experience and knowledge of war on docs/pain crisis cases. Our justice system is withering, ‘the drugs exception to...
View ArticlePain Docs, Drug War Scapegoats, Speak Out
I am very glad to see physicians, who have themselves been savaged by the government, publishing their stories. Consider Dr. Jackson’s article, Conviction without a Crime, to be a companion piece to...
View ArticleArticle 5
This page is the NEW, COMBINED, HOME PAGE for BOTH the older Addiction, Pain and Public Health website, and for the newer WordPress blog. Click on the “War on Doctors/Pain Crisis BLOG” link near top...
View ArticleDr. Shaygan Acquitted of Drug Trafficking
Wow. To win acquittal on federal drug trafficking charges is very difficult and very rare, as I have [discussed before][rm]. A resounding win is almost unheard of. I will be very interested in the...
View Article“Flagrant Violations” by Shaygan Prosecutors
Shaygan's attorney Markus discovered that govt prosecutors authorized two witnesses to surreptitiously record conversations with the defense team and attempt to bribe Markus, and failed to disclose...
View ArticleIt’s About the Pain, Stupid
Maybe we all deserve the pain. If we are too stupid to understand that aspirin kills way more people than morphine, and that there are a whole lot worse things for you and your damn Federal prosecutors...
View ArticleDr. Johnston Files for Supreme Court Review
Dr. Sharon Johnston comes to this Court having been convicted of a crime that does not exist, by a court without jurisdiction to enter a conviction, and affirmed by a court that did not confirm that it...
View ArticlePRN to Obama: Stop the War on Sick People
[Dr. Johnston's] case offers the Obama DOJ the rare chance to reaffirm the architectural structure of our federal system by joining in the PRN’s 10th Amendment-based request for a full hearing by the...
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