May 28, 2005
Author Unknown
Stopthedrugwar.org
More than half a million people were behind bars for drug offenses in the United States at the end of last year, according to numbers from the Bureau of Justice Statistics. In a report released Sunday, Prisoners in 2004, the Justice Department number-crunchers found that people sentenced for drug crimes accounted for [...]
May 28, 2005
stopthedrugwar.org
More than half a million people were behind bars for drug offenses in the United States at the end of last year, according to numbers from the Bureau of Justice Statistics. In a report released Sunday, Prisoners in 2004, the Justice Department number-crunchers found that people sentenced for drug crimes accounted for 21% [...]
May 23, 2005
By: Jacob Sullum
The National Review (NY)
In December, after a federal jury convicted Virginia pain doctor William Hurwitz of running a drug-trafficking operation, the jury’s foreman made a puzzling comment to the Washington Post: “He wasn’t running a criminal enterprise.” Hurwitz, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison on April 14, was charged [...]
May 11, 2005
By: Staff Writer
The Washington Examiner (D.C.)
As federal prosecutors target physicians who prescribe large doses of pain-killing drugs because they can also be abused, doctors are increasingly afraid to provide relief for sick people with intractable pain. As Pain Relief Network President Siobhan Reynolds said, “Ninety-eight percent of doctors won’t touch [chronic pain patients] [...]
May 7, 2005
By: Matt Sabo
Dailypress.com
Two pain management specialists offered different assessments Friday of Dr. J. Howard Shegog’s care of his patients: One said the suspended physician’s care was “laudable and commendable,” and the other said it “did not conform to the standards of medical care in Virginia.”
Discussing the case of a 46-year-old man, Dr. Martin [...]
May 2, 2005
Press Release
PR Newswire
To: National Desk, Health Reporter
Contact: Siobhan Reynolds of the Pain Relief Network
ERIE, Pa., May 2 /U.S. Newswire/ — The following was released today by the Pain Relief Network:
“I don’t care what they say Dr. Heberle did or didn’t do. No one can justify destroying all these sick people,” said Siobhan Reynolds, [...]
