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- Outspoken Activist’s Case Becomes Tangled in Secrets - By Adam Liptak - Nov 1, 2010 - The New York Times - Last week, I asked a lawyer from a libertarian group for a copy of a brief it had filed in a First Amendment case. Sounding frustrated and... More →
- A First Amendment Case You Can't Talk About - Oct 28, 2010 - By: Jacob Sullum - Reason.com - Last week Kansas physician Stephen Schneider and his wife, Linda, who worked as a nurse in his practice, weresentenced to 30 and 33 years, respectively,... More →
- Agency Acts to Ease Delay of Pills for Elderly - Oct 6, 2010 - New York Times - By NATASHA SINGER - The Drug Enforcement Administration has issued a new guideline intended to help ease the delay some nursing home residents face in receiving certain... More →
- Doctor: 1,500 pills don't prove Smith was addicted - Sept 22, 2010 - By LINDA DEUTSCH - The Associated Press - LOS ANGELES -- A pain-management doctor testified Wednesday that Anna Nicole Smith was not a drug addict, rebuffing a prosecutor who... More →
- Treat pain as a 'disease', expert says - Sep 4, 2010 - By Charlie Fidelman, Montreal Gazette - MONTREAL — About 80 per cent of people with chronic pain do not get adequate relief and are suffering needlessly throughout the world, a... More →
- Doctor's advocate targeted in grand jury probe - Aug 22, 2010 - By: Roxana Hegeman - The Associated Press - WICHITA, Kan. - Siobhan Reynolds has spent years crusading on behalf of chronic pain patients - testifying before Congress, suing government... More →
- PRN TAKES ON THE STATE OF WASHINGTON - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Jul 9,2010 - Press Conference and Argument: US Federal CourtSeattle, Washington - When: Monday, July 12th 2010 at 1:00pm - PRN TAKES ON THE STATE OF WASHINGTON - National... More →
- Drug expert: Impossible to tell why patients died - Jun 08, 2010 - By: Ron Sylvester - The Wichita Eagle - An internationally recognized researcher on drug toxicology told jurors that it's impossible to say why patients of a former Haysville doctor... More →
- DEA Response to War on Pain Medicine - Feb 25, 2010 - By: John Stossel - Fox Business Network - In this week’s show “Hands Off My Meds” (re-airing tonight at 10pm ET, Saturday at 7pm ET, and Sunday at 11pm ET), I ask: Why does the... More →
- Legal talent to share - Dec 25, 2009 - By: Karen McCowan - The Register-Guard - An Oregon native is honored for her work to help others in pain - Most people would not use the word “gift” to describe a diagnosis of not... More →
- Tanya Treadway's Unconstitutional Vendetta - Reason Hit & Run - By: Jacob Sullum - Dec 9, 2009 - This week the Institute for Justice and the Reason Foundation (which publishes Reason magazine and Reason Online) filed a friend-of-the-court... More →
- Treating the Pain Epidemic - The New York Times - Nov 5, 2009 - By John Tierney - Chronic pain affects more than 70 million Americans, which makes it more widespread than heart disease, cancer and diabetes combined. It costs the... More →
- From a Neuroscience of Pain to a Neuroethics of Care - Nov 4, 2009 - Author Unknown - medicalnewstoday.com - Science now offers us ever more advanced ways to understand and control pain. But with those new treatments come new questions about the use (and... More →
- DEA crackdown hurts nursing home residents who need pain drugs - Oct 29, 2009 - By Carrie Johnson - Washington Post Staff Writer - Heightened efforts by the Drug Enforcement Administration to crack down on narcotics abuse are producing a troubling side effect by... More →
- Ineffective Pain Care Costs Americans More Than $100 Billion Annually - Medical News Today - Oct 27, 2009 - A new Pain Medicine Position Paper published by leaders of the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM), reveals businesses lose $61 billion annually due to... More →
- Recognition on way for sufferers of chronic pain - KATE BENSON - Oct 19, 2009 - AUSTRALIA could become the first country to recognise chronic pain as a disease in its own right, giving sufferers greater credibility and access to more integrated... More →
- Chronic Pain in Primary Care - Oct 14, 2009 - Bill H. McCarberg, MD - Question - The primary care physician is the point of service entry into our medical delivery system. This doctor is the one initially seen for almost every... More →
- Ultra-High Opioids: When “Too Much” is Just Right - Sep 22, 2009 - by SB. Leavitt, MA, PhD - Controversy still exists about the long-term prescribing of opioids for chronic noncancer pain (CNCP) conditions, and particularly regarding the safety and... More →
- When Cops Play Doctor - Sep 23, 2009 - Author Unknown - Reason.com - The steady stream of celebrity stories about prescription drug abuse makes Americans keenly aware of the dangers of overdosing on medications like OxyContin and Vicodin. And from President Obama's Drug Czar to California Attorney General Jerry Brown, politicians are calling for greater power to monitor doctor-patient relationships in order to fight the "epidemic" of prescription drug overdosing.... More →
- In wake of Michael Jackson case, officials to unveil upgraded state prescription drug database - Sep 15, 2009 - By: Andrew Blankstein - L.A. NOW - Southern California -- this just in - State officials are set to unveil improvements to their prescription medication tracking system this morning,... More →
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