Pain Relief Network

Mar 29, 2006
By: Maia Szalavitz
Huffingtonpost.com
So, they’ve finally arrested Rush Limbaugh on prescription drug charges. Part of me wants to say, “It’s about time.”
But the other part of me, the part that knows about the horrific under-treatment of pain in this country and the insanity of the “war on (some) drugs,” says no matter how much […]

Mar 27, 2006
By: William Fisher
Dissidentvoice.org
Wheelchairbound multiple sclerosis patient Richard Paey is serving 25 years in a Florida prison for “trafficking” 1/2 gram of OxyContin, even though the prosecutor concedes that Paey never sold any of his medications. In prison, he now receives more pain-killing drugs than he was convicted of having.
Dr. William Hurwitz, a pioneering […]

Mar 17, 2006
By: Larry O’Dell
WAVY-TV (VA)
A jury should have been told it could consider whether a doctor acted in good faith in prescribing massive doses of OxyContin and other painkillers, the physician’s lawyer told a federal appeals court Friday.
A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, meeting at the College of William […]

Mar 12, 2006
By: Derek Simmonsen
Tcpalm.com
FORT PIERCE - With the conviction of Dr. Asuncion Luyao this week, a courtroom drama years in the making finally came to a close.
Her arrest four years ago brought the issue of prescription drug abuse to the forefront on the Treasure Coast and similar cases around the country have sparked a […]