Pain Relief Network

Aug 26, 2005
Author Unknown
The Associated Press
COLUMBIA, S.C. - An Upstate doctor has been sentenced to 30 years in prison after he was convicted in April of providing high doses of painkillers to patients, U.S. Attorney Johnny Gasser said Friday.
Ronald A. McIver, 61, operated a pain therapy clinic in Greenwood from 2001 until April 2004. McIver, […]

Aug 20, 2005
By: John P. Flannery
The Roanoke Times (VA)
There is this wrong-headed notion in Virginia that, if we could just get better-paid criminal defense lawyers with more administrative and investigative resources, we would have criminal justice. That’s just not the case.
Assuring the accused of a decent defense in Virginia is but a small part of […]

Aug 15, 2005
Editorial
The Charleston Gazette (WV)
Average folks find it hard to understand why a small minority of Americans desire to dope themselves into oblivion with narcotics. But this need is quite real, because illicit drugs are a gigantic U.S. industry, and the police war on drugs is a billion-dollar public burden.
The narcotics realm keeps evolving. […]

Aug 3, 2005
By: Jerry Markon and Josh White
The Washington Post
The Virginia Board of Medicine has suspended the license of a prominent Chantilly pain doctor who has been named in court papers as a target of a far-reaching federal investigation into prescription drug abuse, officials said.
The board accused Joseph K. Statkus of overprescribing powerful narcotics and […]