Pain Relief Network

April 29, 2005
Editorial
The Los Angeles Times
When San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors met Monday to discuss how to tighten oversight of the city’s 43 medical marijuana dispensaries, Bush administration officials cheered, for all the wrong reasons.
Drug Enforcement Administration agents should have been thrilled that the city is trying to fill the regulatory gulf created in 1996 […]

Apr 24, 2005
By Drake Bennett
The Boston Globe (MA)
Law enforcement is clamping down on doctors who prescribe high doses of the most powerful and dangerous pain killers. Is this protecting patients - or hurting them?
Until he closed  his northern Virginia practice in 2002, Dr. William E. Hurwitz was a nationally known pain specialist whose willingness to […]

Apr 13, 2005
Press Release
PR Newswire
To: National Desk
Contact: Siobhan Reynolds of Pain Relief Network
WASHINGTON, April 13 /U.S. Newswire/ — On the eve of Dr. William E. Hurwitz’s sentencing in Alexandria, Va., on multiple drug trafficking convictions, the Pain Relief Network held a press conference at the National Press Club today denouncing the government’s War On Doctors […]

Apr 13, 2005
By: Siobhan Reynolds
Painreliefnetwork.org
Dear Mr. President,
This is to inform you that a major public health crisis is devastating our citizenry; a crisis caused by our government’s misguided regulatory strategy regarding opioid pain medicine. Tomorrow, in Alexandria, Virginia, Dr. William E. Hurwitz will be sentenced for his multiple convictions on drug trafficking; the United States […]

April 11, 2005
Press Release
PR Newswire
To: Assignment and National desks, Daybook Editor
Contact: Siobhan Reynolds
News Advisory:
WHAT: The Pain Relief Network is holding a news conference to speak out against the United States Department of Justice’s war on pain treating physicians. With non-opioid pain medicines proving to be deadly to patients in pain, Americans are crying out for […]

Apr 3, 2005
By: Siobhan Reynolds
Painreliefnetwork.org
Re: United States v. William Eliot Hurwitz, 03-CR-467-ALL (LDW)
Dear Judge Wexler,
As the President of the Pain Relief Network, I am writing to ask you to stand up to the government of the United States and refuse their request that you sentence Dr. Hurwitz to twenty-plus years in prison. While the government […]