May 21, 2007By: Kyung M. SongSeattle Times (WA)BAINBRIDGE ISLAND — Amy Chouinard suffers from chronic pain that makes sitting, standing and even lying for long periods a torment. Yet every three months, the 50-year-old Bainbridge Island woman makes an excruciating nine-hour drive to Oregon on a simple errand — to renew her prescription for painkillers.The [...]
May 20, 2007By: Charles OrnsteinLos Angeles Times (CA)In the emergency room at Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital, Edith Isabel Rodriguez was seen as a complainer."Thanks a lot, officers," an emergency room nurse told Los Angeles County police who brought in Rodriguez early May 9 after finding her in front of the Willowbrook hospital yelling for [...]
May 20, 2007By: Ronald FraserRutland Herald (VT)Myths have a way of hiding what we don't want to see. Americans, for example, are quick to charge Third World dictators with abusive prison policies. But prison incarceration rates tell a different story. Recent reports show that 45 of the 50 democratically elected state governments in the United [...]
May 17, 2007By: Jason BergreenThe Salt Lake Tribune (UT) Authorities arrested a 60-year-old Murray doctor Wednesday afternoon for allegedly prescribing as many as 5 million doses of painkillers, making his arrest the largest bust ever connected to controlled [...]
May 15, 2007By: Sally Satel, M.D.Wall Street Journal (NY) It is a bad time to be in pain. Last week, the maker of OxyContin, a high-strength narcotic analgesic, agreed to pay $635 million to settle charges of "misbranding" [...]
May 15, 2007By: Trevor ButterworthStats (D.C.)FOX News' tabloid vampire feeds on District Attorney’s exaggerations; what happens when grandstanding goes unchecked, when data is ignored.The Ayatollah of Hyperbollah, Geraldo Rivera, had a good righteous rant over the manufacturer of OxyContin, which was fined for misbranding the slow-release opioid painkiller last week in West Virginia. On the [...]
