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http://www.painreliefnetwork.org/main/prn/in-custody-in-pain.php http://www.painreliefnetwork.org/prn/in-custody-in-pain.php/feed 00:01:01 May 12, 2008By: Amy Goldstein and Dana Priest The Washington PostPress play to listen to Margaret Kersey, Yong Harvill#39;s mother-in-law, read an entry from the ... May 12, 2008By: Amy Goldstein and Dana Priest The Washington PostPress play to listen to Margaret Kersey, Yong Harvill#39;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. Sometimes it tingles. Sometimes it is numb. Like her cancer felt when it arrived behind the knee a few years ago.She noticed the lump under the thin, blue cotton in August, five months after federal immigration officers, to her amazement, took her into custody to try to deport her for buying stolen jewelry more than a decade ago. The lump grows slowly. It is now three inches across. And though she keeps asking, no one has done a test to see whether her sarcoma has come back.Her leg is painful and swollen from hip to foot, damaged by past surgeries and radiation treatments. Some nights, liquid seeps through cracks in her distended skin. Her left ankle is three times as big as her right. For years, she relied on a leg pump to boost her circulation and keep the swelling in check. But as an immigration detainee in this desert prison town, Harvill, 52, has been unable to persuade anyone to get her a pump, or to let her family back in Florida send hers from home.Nor has she gotten the biopsy that a doctor has told her she needs to determine whether the spots on her liver might be tumors. And it remains uncertain whether her frequent crying spells are part of bipolar disorder, as some records suggest, or a flare-up of old anxieties -- heightened now by chronic pain, bewildering medical problems, and the fact that, three decades after she arrived from South Korea as a teenage Army bride, she is in a jail far from home with the government trying to eject her from the United States.Harvill is one of 33,000 immigration detainees in the custody of the Department of Homeland Security#39;s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, known as ICE, on any given day. They are locked up in a patchwork of out-of-the-way federal detention compounds, private prisons and local jails. This unnoticed prison system was built for a quick revolving door of detainees -- into custody, out of the country. But often, people linger in detention for months or years.These detainees, like other prisoners, are by law and regulation entitled to medical services if they are sick. But Harvill#39;s journey through immigration detention provides a glimpse into a medical system that often fails those who need it most. It is an upside-down world where patients have no say, doctors and nurses on site have little power to administer timely treatment, and a managed-care system in Washington operates from a rulebook that emphasizes what is not covered rather than what is.Two months after ICE agents seized Harvill in Florida, they transferred her to Arizona last May, saying a federal compound called the Florence Service Processing Center was better suited to handle her medical care. Four weeks later, they moved her, without explanation, a few miles down a cactus-lined highway to a county jail that hasn#39;t had a full-time staff doctor since she arrived.At Pinal County Jail, Harvill is 2,132 miles from her family outside Tampa, and even farther from her Miami lawyers. To see her, they crowd around a closed-circuit TV in an immigration courtroom in Miami, where the judge to whom her case is assigned convenes #34;video hearings#34; about once a month.Seated at a scuffed oak table in a small courtroom in Florence for one recent hearing, facing a television screen with a video camera on top, Harvill looked older than her age. Her thick, long hair was streaked heavily with gray. Her brown eyes, sparkling in a 1999 wedding photo, were now dull. 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http://www.painreliefnetwork.org/prn/pain-group-to-seek-injunction-in-doctors-case.php/feed http://www.painreliefnetwork.org/prn/prn-interview-with-ksfr-radio-santa-fe-nm.php http://www.painreliefnetwork.org/prn/prn-interview-with-ksfr-radio-santa-fe-nm.php#comments Sat, 05 Jan 2008 06:13:08 +0000 cts http://www.painreliefnetwork.org/prn/prn-interview-with-ksfr-radio-santa-fe-nm.php http://www.painreliefnetwork.org/prn/prn-interview-with-ksfr-radio-santa-fe-nm.php/feed 00:01:01 PRN Interview with KSFR Radio, Santa Fe, NM We are a network of pain patients, family members of people in pain, physicians, attorneys, and activists who are working toward a day when people in pain will be afforded the simple dignity and compassion due all ill Americans. 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Dec 3, 2007By: Se#225;n Kinane wmnf.org According to the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), prescription drug abuse is one of the largest drug problems in the country. Only marijuana and #8220;drug related deaths for both Oxycodone and Hydrocodone in Florida exceed those for heroin.#8221;The director of the ONDCP was in Tampa today to publicize programs that aim to reduce prescription drug abuse.The Drug Abuse Comprehensive Coordinating Office (DACCO) in Tampa hosted a press conference with Drug Czar John P. Walters this afternoon. Mary Lynn Ulrey, CEO of DACCO, spoke about the country#8217;s increasing problem with prescription drug abuse.The ONDCP was in town to stress programs in Tampa for training physicians to prescribe prescription drugs appropriately and how to screen patients for prescription drug abuse and dependence.Walters said 33 states have prescription-monitoring programs funded by the federal government to guard against abuse.Siobhan Reynolds is president of Pain Relief Network, an advocacy group. She doesn#8217;t trust the government#8217;s motivations regarding the prescription-monitoring program.Reynolds said the legal system does not make the distinction between a patient#8217;s physical dependency on a drug and addiction.Liz Harden is the Chief Operating Officer of DACCO. She said #8220;substance abuse is a medical condition.#8221; Harden spoke about two programs to cut down on prescription drug abuse in certain at-risk segments of the population. One is the BRITE program aimed at senior citizens; the other is called Zero Exposure.Often people who have the medical condition of substance abuse or addiction commit crimes. Walters said drug treatment courts could be an alternative to criminalizing the actions of those people, but he said Congress needs to appropriate the proper amount of money.Reynolds said drug courts could still lead to people going to jail who are just trying to relieve their pain.The Tampa Bay area#8217;s most well known example of a chronic pain patient who was put in prison for drug trafficking is Richard Paey. Paey served more than three years of a 25-year sentence before being pardoned by Gov. Charlie Crist in September.http://www.wmnf.org/news_stories/4985#160; News info@painreliefnetwork.org no No