The Pain Relief Network » Editorials http://painreliefnetwork.org Wed, 04 May 2011 23:18:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Agency Acts to Ease Delay of Pills for Elderly http://painreliefnetwork.org/agency-acts-to-ease-delay-of-pills-for-elderly.php/ http://painreliefnetwork.org/agency-acts-to-ease-delay-of-pills-for-elderly.php/#comments Sat, 09 Oct 2010 01:28:50 +0000 Tami http://painreliefnetwork.org/?p=2406 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 painkillers and anti-anxiety medications.


Physicians may now…

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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 leading pain authority said Friday.


“This has gone…

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By: Manfred Nowak Anand Grover
The New York Times


Anything goes in the “war on drugs,” or so it seems. Governments around the world have used it as an excuse for unchecked human rights abuse…

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By: Steven Walker and Ronald Trowbridge
The Wall Street Journal
 
 
The recent news that Sen. Ted Kennedy has brain cancer sharply focuses national attention on the tragedy of

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By: Jacob Sullum
The New York Times

Smoking marijuana isn't a harbinger of ruin
By Jacob Sullum


According to the federal government's survey data, at least half of American adults born after Word War II have

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]]> http://painreliefnetwork.org/gateway-to-washington.php/feed/ 0 Guilty Before Proven Innocent http://painreliefnetwork.org/guilty-before-proven-innocent.php/ http://painreliefnetwork.org/guilty-before-proven-innocent.php/#comments Sun, 20 Apr 2008 08:38:37 +0000 Admin http://www.painreliefnetwork.org/main/prn/guilty-before-proven-innocent.php May 1, 2008
By: Radley Balko
Reason Magazine

How police harassment, jailhouse snitches, and a runaway war on drugs imprisoned an innocent family


Ann Colomb scoops a plastic cup of corn from a white pail in her backyard and

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By: Siobhan Reynolds
PRN

On March 28th, this paper published an article in which the writer convicted Dr. Schneider and his wife prior to trial, condemned the Kansas Board of Healing Arts as

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By: Fred Thompson
Fredfile.com

PRN has posted this article for information purposes only.  It does not signify support for any public candidate or political party.

The Framers drew their design for our Constitution

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By: Donna Knox
Roanoke Times (VA)

They slung terms like "house of death," "drug kingpin" and "fraud central." Cecil Knox waited for them to realize their mistake, but he finally grasped that U.S. Attorney John Brownlee

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]]> http://painreliefnetwork.org/540.php/feed/ 0 Maia Szalavitz: The Media’s Not Telling the Whole Oxycontin Story http://painreliefnetwork.org/maia-szalavitz-the-medias-not-telling-the-whole-oxycontin-story.php/ http://painreliefnetwork.org/maia-szalavitz-the-medias-not-telling-the-whole-oxycontin-story.php/#comments Thu, 10 May 2007 16:22:40 +0000 Admin http://www.painreliefnetwork.org/prn/maia-szalavitz-the-medias-not-telling-the-whole-oxycontin-story.php May 11, 2007
By: Maia Szalavitz
Huffington Post


News that Purdue Pharma has been fined $600 million and some of its top executives criminally charged and fined for "misbranding" the painkiller Oxycontin has been treated…

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