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Undo This Legacy of Len Bias’s Death

Jun 24, 2006
By: Eric E. Sterling and Julie Stewart
The Washington Post (D.C.)
When Len Bias, the basketball star, overdosed on cocaine 20 years ago, Len Bias, the symbol, was born. To many he symbolized the corruption of college athletics — stars whose academic performance is poor, if not irrelevant, but who are essential to bringing in […]

Angel Dust and Devil Doctors: Cruelty V. Compassion Part II

Jun 7, 2006
By: Maia Szalavitz
Huffingtonpost.com
The Kafka-esque quality of the current prosecutions of physicians for “overprescribing” pain medication is hard to overstate– so far, they’ve included witnesses who’ve admitted lying about having exchanged sex for drugs with one doctor and a witness who couldn’t even identify the physician who’d allegedly sold him marijuana, either in the […]

Williams Dies in Prison

June 1,2006
Author Unknown
Painreliefnetwork.org
Dr. Williams died last weekend at the Federal Prison facility at Butner, NC. He died of cancer. His attorney, Michael Ufferman had been unable to secure him a compassionate release.



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