Pain Relief Network

Nov 13, 2005
Press Release
Painreliefnetwork.org
Constitutional Claim on Behalf of Americans In Pain
Presented By Siobhan Reynolds
President, Pain Relief Network
“Men feared witches and burnt women.”
Justice Louis D. Brandeis 1927
The Problem
People in severe pain are unable to mobilize to defend their rights. Chronic pain is a disease and when left untreated sufferers often find it beyond their power to […]

Nov 13, 2005
Press Release
Painreliefnetwork.org
Pain Relief Network has garnered more media attention to our issue than we ever dreamed possible. We have had favorable editorials in major papers and front page articles in others. We have made alliances with mainstream pain foundations, the National Association of Attorney’s Generals, and many mainstream medical organizations. […]

Nov 9, 2005
By: Maia Szalavitz
Huffingtonpost.com
Chronic pain can be treated safely with pain meds
Actor George Clooney recently told the media that he refuses to take opioid painkillers for fear of addiction. Despite an injury that required spinal surgery and left him with daily, blinding headaches, Clooney said, “”I don’t take painkillers because we’ve had members of […]

Nov 09, 2005
By: Susan Spencer-Wendel
Palm Beach Post (FL)
Prosecutors redoubled efforts to talk with Rush Limbaugh’s medical providers, arguing in court Tuesday that they should be allowed to as part of their doctor-shopping investigation of the conservative talk-show king.
Attorneys for Limbaugh kicked up their aggressive defense too, seeking to hold prosecutors in contempt for allegedly leaking […]

Nov 4, 2005
By: Marc Kaufman
The Washington Post (D.C.)
In an escalating dispute over how the government regulates powerful painkilling drugs, the Food and Drug Administration is seeking to prevent renewal of a provision that last year gave the Drug Enforcement Administration final say over allowing new narcotic medications on the market.
The FDA’s deputy commissioner for medical […]