Jul 19, 2005,By: John TierneyThe New York TimesJohn Tierney Op-Ed column on plight of Richard Paey, held in high-security Florida state prison for illegal possession of pain-killers he uses to ease suffering from multiple sclerosis and other spinal cord damage; Paey, who denies forging prescriptions, was subject to 25-year minimum sentence for possessing more than [...]
Jul 18, 2005
By: Diane Cochran
The Billings Gazette (MT)
The federal government’s war on drugs has turned into a witch hunt for doctors who legitimately prescribe legal painkillers, says a California physician who claims he was the target of an unethical federal investigation.
“The war on drugs has become a war on sick people,” Dr. Frank Fisher said [...]
July 18, 2005
By: Mike Stark
The Billings Gazette (MT)
Dr. Richard A. Nelson called about 50 patients to his office last Thursday to deliver the news: federal officers had raided his office, seized records and told him to stop prescribing certain narcotic painkillers.
The patients, whom Nelson treated for chronic pain from injuries, cancer and other ailments, were [...]
July 18, 2005
By: Margot Roosevelt
Time Magazine
On a cold morning last April, in the shadow of Montana’s Beartooth Mountain range, five agents from the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) walked into the office of Dr. Richard Nelson, a Billings neurologist. For six hours, they combed through his records, seizing 72 patient charts and confiscating his drug-dispensing [...]
July 1, 2005
By: Arline Kaplan
PsychiatricTimes.com
Alarmed by escalating abuse of prescription drugs during the past five years, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) is intensifying its research in two areas–understanding mechanisms that underlie the reinforcing, addictive and toxic properties of the drugs and developing medications with less abuse potential.
Marijuana is the number one illegal [...]
Jul 9, 2005
By: Diane Cochran
The Billings Gazette (MT)
The federal government’s war on drugs has turned into a witch hunt for doctors who legitimately prescribe legal painkillers, says a California physician who claims he was the target of an unethical federal investigation.
“The war on drugs has become a war on sick people,” Dr. Frank Fisher said [...]
