Pain Relief Network

Nov 6, 2004
Author Unknown
The Charleston Gazette (VA)
Purdue Pharma To Pay State $10 Million
Drugmaker Perdue Pharma has agreed to give the West Virginia Attorney General’s office $10 million to end a lawsuit accusing the company of dishonestly marketing the painkiller OxyContin.
The money will finance doctor continuing-education programs, law enforcement drug-prevention programs and community drug-rehabilitation programs, according […]

Nov 30, 2004
By: Marc Kaufman
Washington Post (D.C.)
Agency Reneges on Guidelines Worked Out for Narcotics
An extensive effort to ease tensions between physicians who specialize in treating pain and the Drug Enforcement Administration over the use of morphine-based painkillers has backfired — leaving many pain doctors and patients more fearful than before that they could be arrested […]

Nov 29, 2004
Press Release
Painreliefnetwork.org
I want to thank the committee for hearing my testimony today. My name is Siobhan Reynolds, I am the President of the Pain Relief Network, a web based advocacy organization working to make pain care available to the American people.
I asked to come before you today to emphasize the shocking situation currently […]

Nov 26, 2004
By: Siobhan Reynolds
Painreliefnetwork.org
Dear Ms. Tandy,
As US v Hurwitz draws to a close, I call upon you to rethink your approach to this important matter and to weigh the implications for the American people, should your agency secure a conviction.
Our system for regulating medical practice was set up so that medical conduct would be […]

Nov 19, 2004
By: Jacob Sullum
Reason.com
Prosecutors say McLean, Virginia, physician William Hurwitz, who is on trial at the federal courthouse in Alexandria, knowingly supplied OxyContin and other narcotic painkillers to patients who sold them on the black market. “A self-proclaimed healer, he crossed the line to dealer,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Lytle declared in his opening […]

Nov 5, 2004
By: Leef Smith
Washington Post (D.C.)
Federal prosecutors yesterday portrayed prominent pain doctor William E. Hurwitz as a man who used his white coat and prescription pad to traffic in narcotics, spreading the abuse of addictive painkillers nationwide and ultimately leading to the deaths of several patients.
During the opening day of his trial in U.S. […]