Pain Relief Network

Apr 29, 2006
By: Diane Cochran
The Billings Gazette (MT)
A year after agents from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration raided his Billings medical practice, Dr. Richard A. Nelson is still wondering whether he’ll be charged with a crime.
“We haven’t heard a damn thing,” said Nelson, a neurologist who specializes in care for chronic pain. “It’s been silent.”
DEA […]

Apr 23, 2006
By Marc Kaufman
Washington Post
A Physician With Firsthand Knowledge About Pain Advocates Opium-Based Drugs Despite Fears of Abuse
Howard Heit knows pain.
He lives it, he studies it, he works to reduce it. His own pain used to get so bad that he wore patches of hair off the back of his head by rubbing it […]

Apr 20, 2006
By John Hopkins,
The Virginian-Pilot
Dr. Sidney Loxley was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court to seven years and three months in prison for illegally dispensing narcotics to patients.
Judge Walter D. Kelley Jr. also sentenced the 63-year-old Chesapeake orthopedic surgeon to three years of supervised release and ordered him to take part in a substance […]