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DEA Response to War on Pain Medicine - Feb 25, 2010 - By: John Stossel - Fox Business Network - Watch the latest business video at FOXBusiness.com - In this week’s show “Hands Off My Meds” (re-airing tonight at 10pm ET, Saturday at... 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 →
Can Narcotics Turn Free Speech Into Obstruction of Justice? - Sep 2, 2009 - Jacob Sullum - Reason Hit & Run - "As Radley Balko and I have both noted here, Tanya Treadway, an assistant U.S. attorney in Kansas, is trying to bully pain treatment activist... More →
The Evil-Mongering Of The American Medical Association - Aug 26, 2009 - By Shikha Dalmia - Forbes.com - "The association has managed so far to escape the wrath of MoveOn.org and other Democratic apparatchiks by muting its opposition to their beloved public... More →
Pain Relief Advocate Pays High Price for Free Speech - Sep 3, 2009 - Author Unknown - wibw.com - The president of the Pain Relief Network has been an outspoken advocate for chronic pain sufferers. - TOPEKA, KS – A federal court in Topeka, Kansas today... More →
Patient advocate fined for contempt in Kansas case - Sep 3, 2009 - Author Unknown - ksn.com - TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A federal judge in Kansas has found the head of a New Mexico-based patient advocacy group in contempt of court. - Siobhan (cheh-VOHN')... More →
Michael Jackson and Medical Paternalism - "She soft peddles the frequency with which doctors shield themselves from liability at the expense of patients, but its a start." - Siobhan Reynolds PRN Jul 28, 2009 - Michael Jackson and Medical... More →
Drug war hits close - Jul 14, 2009 - By Kurt Krueger - News-Review Editor - It was 8 a.m. on Oct. 31, 2008, after a long night in the emergency room, that America’s “War on Drugs” took on new meaning for a respected... More →
DOJ eyes Kan. complaint against federal prosecutor - Jul 10, 2009 - By: Roxana Hegeman - The Associated Press - WICHITA, Kan. - A political activist targeted in a federal obstruction investigation in Kansas said she has filed a complaint with the... More →
If 2 Painkillers Are Banned, What Next? - Jul 05, 2009 - By: Amanda Gardner - Health Day - THURSDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- Banning the popular painkillers Percocet and Vicodin, which a U.S. health advisory panel has urged, would not be... More →

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