Jun 19, 2007Author UnknownMy Fox Tampa Bay (FL)NEW PORT RICHEY - A Pasco County family's nightmare may finally be ending. They're a step closer to clemency for a man doing 25 years in prison because his indescribable pain required more drugs than state law allows.Yet, ironically, in prison, he's getting more medication than he was [...]
Jun 18, 2007By: Erica LittleOver Criminalization.comThe prohibitions and penalties of the criminal law have seeped into the medical profession in pernicious ways. This week the New York Times Magazine highlights the case of Ronald McIver, a doctor who ran a pain control center for patients in chronic pain but who is now in federal prison. [...]
June 12, 2007
By: John P. FlanneryPain Relief Network
We have some good news in the case of Richard Paey. Richard Paey, a chronic pain patient, is serving a sentence of 25 years for possessing 31⁄2 grams of Oxycodone that he used to block and blunt the effects of his intolerable pain. A three judge panel of the [...]
June 17, 2007By: Tina RosenbergNew York Times (NY)Ronald McIver is a prisoner in a medium-security federal compound in Butner, N.C. He is 63 years old, of medium height and overweight, with a white Santa Claus beard, white hair and a calm, direct and intelligent manner. He is serving 30 years for drug trafficking, and so [...]
June 2, 2007Author UnknownPain Relief NetworkDr. Paul Maynard was indicted in the Virgin Islands on 170 counts of over-prescribing pain medication outside the course of professional medical practice. In February 2007, a jury convicted Dr. Maynard on four counts, exposing him to a maximum sentence of 20 years for each count. The jury also acquitted [...]
June 13, 2008By: Erica Molina Johnson and Tammy Fonce-OlivasEl Paso Times (TX)A doctor acquitted in 1999 of making false workers' compensation claims is under investigation again by the FBI on allegations of health-care fraud.Around 10 a.m. Tuesday, about a dozen agents from several agencies raided the International Institute of Pain Management office of Dr. Anthony [...]
