Jan 19, 2007
By: Bill Kackor
The Associated Press
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - A wheelchair-bound man who obtained large amounts of prescription drugs to control severe pain should not have been convicted of being a drug trafficker, his lawyers argued in papers filed Friday with the Florida Supreme Court.
They contend prosecutors and two lower courts misapplied the state’s drug [...]
Jan 18, 2007
Tom Jackson
Tbo.com
In the sad case of former Hudson resident Richard Paey, a traffic crash victim who, by all accounts, merely hoped to manage chronic pain, the foremost thing to say is this: Where is America’s legendary activist judiciary when we need it?
Paey, we know, is serving a startlingly long sentence on a variety [...]
Jan 14, 2007
Author Unknown
The Indiana Times (IN)
PATNA: Doctors’ Organisation for Social Action (DOSA) has appealed to the Centre and the state government to frame laws providing for deterrent punishment to those who attack physically or prosecute doctors on frivolous and unjust charges.
DOSA, headed by eminent doctors of Patna Dr Gopal Prasad Sinha and Dr Ajay [...]
Jan 13, 2007
Author Unknown
Cnn.com
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon and to a lesser extent the CIA have been using a little-known power to look at the banking and credit records of hundreds of Americans and others suspected of terrorism or espionage within the United States, according to a published report.
“It is our understanding that the intelligence [...]
Listen to PRN’s President, Siobhan Reynolds, in our first podcast. This broadcast highlights the new Pain Relief Network and what we are currently doing in the fight for chronic pain patients and the doctors who treat them.
Jan 3, 2007
By: Mike Males
The New York Times
When releasing last week’s Monitoring the Future survey on drug use, John P. Walters, the director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, boasted that “broad†declines in teenage drug use promise “enormous beneficial consequences not only for our children now, but for the rest of their [...]
