The Pain Relief Network

Great article, placing the nitty-gritty legal and philosophical issues in their depressing perspective. I wonder if there is any hope of change with the current administration. Dr. Hurwitz once sent me a paper he had written concerning, to the best of my not so good recollection, ways of establishing a substantive right to pain relief pursuant to the ADA. But it was back in ’97-8, I believe, and I have no clue how to find it and never read it b/c I did not have Word at the time.

Since I trust the news of his retrial would be on the site and I’ve yet to find it, I am assuming that it has not been occurred. But it has been more than 3 years since this post and even longer since the 4th Circuit spoke. Can anyone update me? I have not been following this War since shortly after the turn of the century, when pain rendered me virtually non-functional and too unreliable to advocate even for myself. For better and worse, I have or had a disease that robs one of their youth, starts at puberty, but out of which one can finally grow at the other end – after losing most of the years in between.