Pain Relief Network

Aug 16, 2007By: Zachary David SkaggsThe Washington Times (DC)
Since 2000, the Drug Enforcement Administration has embarked on a muscular campaign against prescription painkiller abuse. It has utilized undercover investigations, SWAT raids, asset forfeiture, and high profile trials against "kingpin" doctors. These tactics should be familiar to anyone who has studied the drug war, but the […]

Aug 10, 2007 By: Roger Pilon The Wall Street Journal
The wheels of justice turn slowly, especially for the dying. On Tuesday the D.C. Circuit, sitting en banc, reversed a 15-month-old decision by a panel of the court that had recognized a constitutional right of terminally ill patients to access potentially life-saving drugs not yet […]

Aug 9, 2007Author UnknownThe Associated Press
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. –A Pasco County man with multiple sclerosis who was convicted of drug trafficking for having a large stash of prescription drugs he said were for pain should receive clemency, his family said Thursday.
Richard Paey has served four years of a 25-year minimum mandatory sentence for drug trafficking. The […]

Aug 5, 2007By: Karen WilkinsonThe Times-Standard (CA)
RIO DELL — Some see him as a martyr, a patients' rights advocate who became a target of the government's unofficial war on drugs.
Others see him as a pusher, a crack dealer and mass murderer — a doctor who prescribed pain killers to patients who ultimately died.
Dr. Frank Fisher, […]

Jul 25, 2007By: Siobhan Reynolds PRN
Mr. Chairman and Senators:  Thank you for taking my testimony on the propriety of the criminal settlement between the United States Department of Justice and Purdue Pharmaceuticals. Pain Relief Network has opposed the United States Department of Justice crackdown on the pain treatment community and has had ample opportunity to […]

Jul 27, 2007By: Fred ThompsonFredfile.com

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The Framers drew their design for our Constitution from a basic understanding of human nature. From the wisdom of the ages and from fresh experience, they understood the better angels […]