Pain Relief Network

Apr 20, 2007Author UnknownThe Lancet
Professional and public anxieties about the effects of morphine continue to hinder adequate prescribing of this vital painkiller for genuine pain relief, claims a Comment in this week's edition of The Lancet.
Nigel Sykes, of St Christopher's Hospice, London, UK, says that the notorious Dr Harold Shipman's* use of morphine as a […]

April 19, 2007By: Diane CochranThe Billings Gazette (MT)
At the two-year anniversary of a federal raid on his office, a Billings doctor has not been charged with a crime or regained his authority to prescribe certain medicines.
Federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents executed an administrative inspection warrant on Dr. Richard A. Nelson's West End neurology office in […]

Apr 18, 2007 By: Siobhan Reynolds Pain Relief Network
Friends of PRN,
The document, linked to below, is a must-read. Here, John Flannery respectfully demands bail for Dr. Paul Maynard who is being held in sub-human conditions in Puerto Rico following his sham conviction on prescribing charges.
Just to be clear; we have repeatedly and […]

April 17, 2007EditorialAmarillo.com
WASHINGTON - With at least 40 million Americans struggling with chronic, never-ending pain, our Washington leaders might have called on the nation's physicians to declare a war on suffering. Instead, according to a former federal prosecutor, government agents have launched a war against pain doctors and their patients.
Proponents of the war on drugs […]

April 15, 2007By: Christopher StowensThe Source The detention of Dr. Paul Maynard, recently convicted of prescribing pain medication to patients "without a legitimate purpose," has drawn the attention of Delegate Donna M. Christensen, who has written a protest letter to the nation's top prison official.
"I am writing to make a plea for help on behalf of […]

April 12, 2007
By: Denna Christensen
I am writing to make a plea for help on behalf of my constituent Dr. Paul Maynard who was found guilty in federal court…