Pain Relief Network

2007Author UnknownStop the drug war.org
As part of its 2007 Annual Report, released Wednesday, the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) issued a press release saying that "ensuring access to pain treatment medicines is vital and possible." Millions of people around the world are suffering chronic and acute pain because narcotic pain medications are not being sufficiently […]

Mar 5, 2008By Ed Burns, Dennis Lehane, George Pelecanos, Richard Price, David Simon
We write a television show. Measured against more thoughtful and meaningful occupations, this is not the best seat from which to argue public policy or social justice. Still, those viewers who followed The Wire — our HBO drama that tried to portray all […]

Mar 2008 By: Scott HortonHarper's Magazine
Excerpts: For a long time now, the president's party has had the odd tic of projecting its own intentions onto its political enemies, and it seems to b project most intensely those desires it holds most dear. For instance, Republicans have decried the "big government" tendencies of "nanny state" […]

Mar 4, 2008
Author Unknown
The New York Times
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A patient-advocacy group is dropping its lawsuit over the prosecution of a doctor accused of running a ‘’pill mill'’ linked to 56 overdose deaths, just days after a stinging rebuke from a federal judge.
The Pain Relief Network had attempted to intervene to keep Dr. Stephen Schneider’s clinic open. It claimed the clinic’s 1,000 patients have been unable to find adequate care since Schneider’s license was suspended in January […]

Mar 3, 2008
By: Roxana Hegeman
The Associated Press
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Federal prosecutors claim the president of the Pain Relief Network of has a “parasitic” relationship with a Kansas physician indicted for running a “pill mill” linked to 56 deaths […]

Feb 29, 2008By: Roxana HegemanThe Associated Press
WICHITA, Kan.—A federal judge on Friday said a New Mexico-based advocacy group for chronic pain patients has no standing to sue on behalf of patients of a Kansas doctor accused of illegally prescribing painkillers.
U.S. District Judge Wesley Brown refused to grant the Pain Relief Network's request for a temporary […]