Feb 28, 2007Author UnknownNewswise.comThe abuse of prescription pain medication in the United States appears to be on the increase. Michael Hooten, M.D., Director of the Pain Rehabilitation Center at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, answers questions on pain medication misuse and addiction in an interview in the March issue of Mayo Clinic Women’s HealthSource.How common is [...]
Feb 27, 2007Author UnknownPainreliefnetwork.orgSAN ANTONIO — HBO has produced ADDICTION, a hard- hitting, 14-part, multi-media documentary series to draw attention to this very misunderstood medical disease. To highlight the local impact of addiction as well as local resources for treatment and long-term recovery, San Antonio Fighting Back, Inc. is hosting a screening of ADDICTION on: [...]
Feb 26, 2007By: Bonnie DarvesDocguide.comSALT LAKE CITY, UT — Patients in hospice or palliative care sometimes are reluctant to accurately describe their pain to doctors and nurses, or to speak openly in the presence of family members, which may set in motion a chain of events whose net result is inadequate pain management.Opening the lines [...]
Feb: 25, 2007By: Paula SpanThe Washington PostThe shades in Richard Twohig's garden apartment are drawn tight against the summer sun. This is partly because it's 94 degrees in Knoxville, Tenn., this afternoon, but also because light can trigger one of his bad headaches, the kind that make his knees buckle. His kids have grown accustomed [...]
Feb 23, 2007By: Nina BernsteinThe New York TimesIt took 20 years of sacrifices and separations for Nery Romero’s parents, immigrants from El Salvador, to obtain legal residency for the whole family in the United States. But Mr. Romero, 22, quickly forfeited his right to stay.His criminal convictions — for an attempted robbery in 2003, and [...]
Feb 21, 2007By: Kelley L. Ross, Ph.D.Friesian.com"If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble, squeezing his hat emphatically in both hands, "the law is a ass — a idiot."–Charles Dickens, Oliver TwistThe conservative columnist Joseph Sobran has a lecture on audio tape called "How Tyranny Came to America." This seems like a shocking and absurd [...]
