Pain Relief Network

Misguided DEA’s Witch Hunt Leaves Patients Hurting

May 30, 2006
By: Barbara McKeet
Albuquerque Tribune (NM)
Chronic pain management is officially part of the war on drugs. The Drug Enforcement Administration and the Justice Department have had such bad results with controlling the illegal importation and use of heroin and cocaine that both departments have turned their focus on pain-management clinics to get some […]

Media Myths About Drugs Harm, Kill

May 26, 2006
By: Maia Szalavitz
Huffingtonpost.com
It is depressing to watch ignorance kill, inflict pain and maim — even more so when misinformation spread by the media continually propagates it.
Recently, for example, dozens of drug addicts have died due to a combination of a synthetic opioid drug called fentanyl and heroin. The media has generally covered this […]

PRN President, Siobhan Reynolds, Letter to the NY Times

May 15, 2006By: Siobhan ReynoldsPRN
To the Editor:
John Tierney (''A Taste of His Own Medicine ,'' column, May 6) hits the nail on the head when he suggests that drug war prosecutions, like those of Rush Limbaugh or Richard Paey, are more for show than for actual enforcement purposes.
Unfortunately, […]

The Feds in My Head

May 5, 2006
By: Bruce Stockler
Iht.com
I FOUND the federal agent in the living room, listening to the phone messages. When I asked how he hacked my PIN, he laughed. He said not to worry about what specific agency he worked for, because everything was all very fluid now.
I support President Bush’s pre-emptive foreign policy, and, frankly, […]

REV. Jesse Jackson, Committed to Getting Dr. Nucklos Another Trial

May 4, 2006
Press Release
Painreliefnetwork.org
REV. JESSE JACKSON, COMMITTED TO GETTING DR. NUCKLOS ANOTHER TRIAL
(Springfield, OH) Rev. Jesse Jackson wrote the Ohio Court of Appeals to question whether Dr. William Nucklos, a pain physician in Ohio, was fairly convicted and sentenced to twenty years for treating his chronic pain patients; the Rev. Jackson did not think Dr. […]



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