Pain Relief Network

Jul 19, 2006
By: David Angier
Pensacola News Herald (FL)
Freddie Williams, 54, a doctor who practiced in Florida’s Panhandle, has received a life term in prison for prescribing oxycodone to two patients who later died of overdoses, the Associated Press reported Sept. 3.
U.S. District Judge Casey Rodgers held Williams responsible for the 2002 death of Brian Sanders […]

Jul 19, 2006
By: David Angier
The News Herald (FL)
Dr. Thomas Merrill knew his fate well before he was sentenced Monday: life behind bars.
But that did not stop his attorney from fighting all day for probation.
U.S. District Judge M. Casey Rodgers sentenced Merrill, 70, of Apalachicola, to life in prison for 98 counts, including illegally dispensing controlled […]

Jul 18, 2006
By: Lilly Anderson
Fortwayne.com
It’s a shame narcotics have received such a bad rap.
Frank Gray mentioned in a column July 9 that some Hurricane Katrina volunteers – well intentioned, I’m sure – persuaded a woman who had broken her back to go off narcotic painkillers because they were, well, narcotics. The woman later used too […]

Jul 14, 2006
By: Phil McKenna
The Boston Globe
Key report targets abusers, doctors
A state commission called yesterday for more aggressive tracking of people who abuse addictive painkillers and the doctors who prescribe them.
The OxyContin Commission, established by the Legislature in 2004 to combat prescription abuse, also called for more cooperation among state officials, regulators, and law enforcement […]