May 28, 2008
By: Roxana Hegeman
The Associated Press
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Prosecutors on Wednesday defended the constitutionality of federal drug laws, spurning defense arguments seeking dismissal of an indictment charging a Kansas physician with illegally prescribing narcotic painkillers linked to 56 overdose deaths[...]
May 27, 2008
By: Roxana Hegeman
The Associated Press
Federal prosecutors told a judge Tuesday that the government never interfered with the proceedings of the Kansas Board of Healing Arts, denying a defense contention in the prosecution of a Haysville doctor accused of illegally prescribing narcotic painkillers[...]
May 19, 2008
By: Roxana Hegeman
The Associated Press
WICHITA, Kan. - Prosecutors “commandeered” the Kansas Board of Healing Arts, improperly asserting federal authority over the regulation of medicine in their prosecution of a Kansas doctor charged with illegally prescribing narcotic painkillers, his defense attorneys said[...]
May 16, 2008
By: Roxana Hegeman
The Associated Press
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A jailhouse informant told investigators that a nurse charged with her husband of running a “pill mill” tried to obtain false identification to use in case she is released, prosecutors said in a motion filed Friday[...]
2007Author UnknownAnesthesia -analgesia.org
Willem Scholten, PharmD, MPA*, Helena Nygren-Krug, LLB, LLM, LLM{dagger}, and Howard A. Zucker, MD, JD{ddagger}
From the *Departments of Medicines Policy and Standards; {dagger}Sustainable Development and Healthy Environments; and the Cluster of {ddagger}Health Technology and Pharmaceuticals, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Address correspondence to Willem Scholten, PharmD, MPA, Technical Officer, Quality Assurance and Safety: Medicines, [...]
May 16, 2008
Author Unknown
Cei.org
Today, millions of Americans live in chronic pain, without adequate access to prescription pain medications, because their doctors are too afraid of being harassed or even arrested by the Drug Enforcement Administration to prescribe sufficient doses. Everyone agrees that doctors should not be using their positions to supply addicts with narcotics or feed the illicit drug market. Many doctors, however, have been arrested or threatened with loss of their medical licenses simply for prescribing opiate-based pain medications in doses that federal drug authorities believe are too high[...]
