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Future Docs Give USA Fair Warning about Pain…

Letters from medical students in response to Tina Rosenberg's NY Times Magazine cover "When is a Doctor a Dealer" published in June, 2007. "... [Ms. Rosenberg] is absolutely right - my friends and I in...

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Prohibita-chloride Really Works!

Prohibita-chloride Really Works. -- And now we pause for a moment of enjoyment and laughter. -- Thank you to Mr. James Stack for making me aware of Incarcerex, and for making this informative video so...

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Tom Corbett: Jailer of Healers and the Sick

Blog post about Pennsylvania Attorney Tom Corbett's attacks on substance misusing physicians as drug criminals. What Pennsylvanians need to understand is that AG Tom Corbett is mis-informing them and...

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When Pain is Chronic

John Tierney (''A Taste of His Own Medicine,'' column, May 6) hits the nail on the head when he suggests that drug war prosecutions, like those of Rush Limbaugh or Richard Paey, are more for show than...

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DEA Oversight Hearings: July 12, 2007

The House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Crime, will be holding hearings on DEA oversight Thursday, July 12, 2007. As a result of my visit to DC in early June, the recent New York Times Magazine...

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War on Doctors Prosecutors’ Cheat Sheet

Blog post about the Prescription Drug Diversion Prosecutions - Quick Reference Card 2002 for which a link to full text PDF is provided. Tina Rosenberg, in her recent cover story for the New York Times...

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DEA Oversight Hearings 07/12/07 – UPDATE

Pain Relief Network Press Release about House of Representatives Hearings on DEA Oversight scheduled for July 12, 2007. Full text: The House Judiciary Committee, Subcommittee on Crime, will be holding...

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DEA Hearings Webcast Live

LIVE WEBCAST: Thursday 07/12/2007 - 10:00 AM. 2237 Rayburn House Office Building. Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security. Hearing on: The Drug Enforcement Administration's Regulation...

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High – the video…

War on Doctors/Pain Crisis blog entry presenting the embedded trailer for the documentary, 'High - the true tale of American Marijuana. Related posts: Dr. Fisher Comments on the Paey Appeal and on...

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PRN’s Reynolds’ Senate Testimony Re: Oxycontin Settlement

Siobhan Reynolds, president of the Pain Relief Network, Testimony before the Senate committee on the Judiciary, regarding the Purdue Oxycontin settlement. Link to full text PDF. Excerpt: "Many people...

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Weird Drug War Video #1

Odd drug use youTube video from Brussels... Related posts: High – the video… Doctors: New Target in the War On Drugs? YARPP powered by AdBistroPowered by

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Painful Drug War Victory

Editorial from the Washington Times about DEA's war on doctors and the pain crisis in America that has resulted in the casual and routine undertreatment of moderate to severe chronic pain. Article...

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Weird Drug War Video #2

Blog post: Use Your Eyes - Residence Investigation (1960’s police training film); Unknown filmmaker; Unknown creation date. Posted: 2007-08-31. Dopey police training film. Related posts: Weird Drug War...

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DEA 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...

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The Purdue Plea Deal: Power Gets Its Way

Purdue Pharma was coerced, under threat of destruction by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), into pleading guilty to charges that their drug was "more addictive" than they had claimed, the...

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Pain Patients Excluded from Senate Hearings

Testimony of Siobhan Reynolds, President of the Pain Relief Network (PRN), to Senator Biden and the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs, March 2008. Concludes: Related posts: PRN’s Reynolds’...

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Schneider 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...

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Wanted: 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...

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An Ethical Analysis of the Barriers to Effective Pain Management

This Resource Is an article discusses the failure of the 'barriers to pain care' literature to analyze those barriers from an ethical POV. The author relates this to 'the collective failure of the...

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Big Prescription Drug Lies

Article by Dr. DeLuca regarding Jacob Sullum\'s comments about a recent SAMHSA analysis showing low addiction rates for most substances of abuse, and also discusses Hurwitz\' excellent 2005 analysis of...

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