Pain Relief Network

Dec 17, 2004
By: Jacob Sullum
Reason Magazine
I have to admit I’m impressed by the achievement of the federal prosecutors who call McLean, Virginia, pain doctor William Hurwitz “a major and deadly drug dealer.” Although the evidence they presented in his trial made it clear Hurwitz was not a drug trafficker, they still managed to convict him […]

Dec 17, 2004
Author Unknown
Stopthedrugwar.org
Prominent Northern Virginia pain management specialist Dr. William Hurwitz was viewed as a savior by his patients, some of whom traveled hundreds of miles to see him, but a federal jury in Alexandria, Virginia, yesterday found him guilty of being a drug dealer. After six weeks of testimony and four days of […]

Dec 15, 2004
Press Release
Painreliefnetwork.org
Pain Relief Network Calling for Immediate Moratorium on Federal Criminal Prosecutions and for the establishment of a US Commission on Pain.
Past and Present Presidents of American Pain Society Denounce Testimony of Prosecution Medical Expert as likely worsening the national tragedy of undertreated pain.
Alexandria, VA, December 14, 2004 - At the conclusion of […]

Dec 10, 2004
By: Russell K. Portenoy MD, et al.
Painreliefnetwork.org
Marvin D. Miller, Esq.
P.O.Box 663
1203 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22313
Dear Mr. Miller,
We are Past-Presidents of the American Pain Society and have decided to take an unusual step in writing you about the expert testimony that you have heard at the trial of Dr William Hurwitz. We are deeply […]

Dec 8, 2004
By: Paul Bradley
Times-Dispatch (VA)
Hurwitz earned nearly $900,000 at clinic between 1999-2002
A prominent pain-management doctor accused of fueling a nationwide black market in illegal painkillers earned nearly $900,000 from 1999 through 2002 before his McLean clinic was shut down, according to evidence presented at his trial.
Tax returns of Dr. William […]

Dec 7, 2004
By: Jerry Markon
The Washington Post (D.C.)
A prominent former pain doctor on trial for alleged drug trafficking defended his treatment methods yesterday, saying he prescribed large dosages of narcotics to patients who had been arrested or failed drug screenings because he believed they were in chronic pain.
In one instance, William E. Hurwitz testified, he […]