Sep 21, 2007Author UnknownPRN
LuAnn Nowak, Nurse Practitioner, Dorothy Lee, Nurse Practitioner, and April Hazard Vallerand, Principal Investigator. College of Nursing, Wayne State University, 2267 Shoreline Drive, Brighton, MI 48114
Purpose: Prescription of opioid analgesics for managing chronic nonmalignant pain is controversial. Chronic opioid therapy is rarely utilized as a treatment option because health care professionals fear […]
Sep 20, 2007Author Unknown St. Petersburg Times (FL)
TALLAHASSEE — Richard Paey is a chronic pain patient in year three of a 25-year mandatory-minimum sentence for trafficking in drugs — his own pain medication.
But his freedom is just hours away.
Gov. Charlie Crist and the Florida Cabinet voted unanimously to grant Paey a full pardon Thursday morning […]
Sep 14, 2007By: Liz Kowalczyk, The Boston Globe (MA)
NEEDHAM - The first sign of trouble came at a neighborhood pharmacy.
Patients of Dr. Joseph Zolot began coming around in 1999, sometimes a half-dozen a day, to fill prescriptions for high doses of narcotics, the pharmacist later told investigators. He said he called Zolot to discuss the […]
Sep 15, 2007By: Donald G. McNeil Jr.The New York Times
It was a neighbor screaming in pain 35 years ago that set Dr. M. R. Rajagopal on the path to his nickname: India's ''father of palliative care.''
''He was dying of cancer, with lots of tumors on his face and scalp,'' Dr. Rajagopal recalled. ''His family asked […]
Aug 31, 2007 By: John Tierney The New York Times
When federal agents raided the Pittsburgh-area office of Dr. Bernard L. Rottschaefer, the resulting allegations came as a shock to the 63-year-old man's friends and family: Rottschaefer, the office of U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan alleged, had been writing prescriptions for anti-anxiety medication and opiate […]
Aug 30, 2007By: Maia SzalavitzThe Huffington Post
……why Mitt Romney immediately dissociates himself with a guy caught trying to have sex with another adult in a public toilet… but not from the head of a teen tough-love "anti-drug" organization in which a top executive still employed by the company said under oath [large PDF file] that […]
