May 16, 2008
By: Richard Morrison
Cei.org
Washington, D.C., May 16, 2008—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. To help combat this problem, the Competitive Enterprise Institute is launching its “Politics of Pain†campaign to support reform of DEA rules and procedures[...]
May 8, 2008
By: RS Davis
Nolanchart.com
Francis L Young, a DEA Administrative law judge, once remarked that cannibas is “one of the safest therapeutically active substances known.” This has been backed up by numerous studies, including one that shows it to be one of the most successful treatments for neuropathic pain, one that shows it to shrink breast cancer tumors, and yet another that shows that while it doesn’t harm the lungs like cigarettes, it can actually prevent cancer from happening.
May 12, 2008By: Amy Goldstein and Dana Priest The Washington Post[display_podcast]
Press play to listen to Margaret Kersey, Yong Harvill's mother-in-law, read an entry from the journal Harvill kept while detained in an ICE facility in Arizona.FLORENCE, Ariz. — Underneath her baggy jail-issue pants, Yong Sun Harvill feels the soft lump just below her left knee. [...]
May 8, 2008
By: Roxana Hegeman
The Associated Press
Federal prosecutors told a federal judge Wednesday that the government is investigating more allegations of health care fraud at a “pill mill” already linked to at least 56 overdose deaths.
The glimpse into the government’s investigation came amid a flurry of recent court filings, subpoenas and legal gamesmanship in the prosecution of physician Stephen Schneider and his wife, Linda[...]
May 7, 2008
Author Unknown
KSNW-TV (KS)
Federal prosecutors told a judge today that the government is investigating more health care fraud allegations at a Kansas “pill mill.”
WICHITA, Kansas, May 7, 2008 (AP) - Federal prosecutors told a judge today that the government is investigating more health care fraud allegations at a Kansas “pill mill.”[...]
