Pain Relief Network

January 2, 2001
By: Jacob Sullum
Reason.com
“No patient should ever wish for death because of his physician’s reluctance to use adequate amounts of potent narcotics.” So said the psychiatrist Jerome Jaffe, later Richard Nixon’s drug czar, in a 1966 pharmacology textbook. He put the admonition in italics.
The situation Jaffe had in mind was observed several years later […]

Jan 1, 2001
Author Unknown
Painreliefnetwork.org
Not realizing that pain care had been actively discouraged by the Federal government since the dawn of prohibition, well meaning medical professionals, beginning in the 1980’s, did clinical research and produced volumes of life-saving findings that should have dispelled any lingering fear about the risks to patients and to the public’s health […]

Jan 1, 2001
Author Unknown
Ama-assn.org
Unbalanced and misleading media coverage on the abuse of opioid analgesics not only perpetuates misconceptions about pain management; it also compromises the access to adequate pain relief sought by over 75 million Americans living with pain.
In the past several years, there has been growing recognition by health care providers, government regulators, and […]