Jul 8, 2005
Press Release
US Newswire

To: Assignment Desk, Daybook Editor, Health Reporter

Contact: Siobhan Reynolds, 800-4-RELIEF, or Gregg Wilkinson, 406-860-9980, both for the Pain Relief Network

News Advisory:

Who: Siobhan Reynolds, president, Pain Relief Network; Dr. Frank B. Fisher, national expert on pain management and former patients of Richard A. Nelson, who have been abused and denied pain treatment by all area hospitals and clinics.

What: Press conference demanding care for Billings pain patients-Sen. Baucus reneging on offer to help

Where: The Tempest Room, The Sheraton Hotel Downtown, Billings, Mont.

When: 1:30 pm, July 8

The Pain Relief Network (PRN) will be holding a press conference this afternoon providing the former patients of DEA target Richard A. Nelson a platform on which to speak out about the personal destruction they are suffering at the hands of Billings physicians. Despite Senator Max Baucus’s public assurances to the contrary, the Deering Clinic is making a mockery of its obligation to take care of Montana’s citizens. The conference is taking place one day following the release of CASA’s alarmist announcement that the nation is suffering an “epidemic of controlled prescription drug abuse and diversion.”

Said PRN’s Reynolds, in response to Joseph Califano’s assertions’, “this is the most outrageous and irresponsible behavior I have ever seen by a person of his stature. What we have is an epidemic of under-treated pain.”

Dr. Frank Fisher will be speaking at the news conference, after having evaluated the physical condition of the abandoned Montana patients.

Dr. Fisher, himself a doctor who was targeted by law enforcement and subsequently exonerated, has flown in from Northern California to work with the patients and the local medical community to get these desperate citizens care.

PRN will also be presenting Senator Baucus’ office with the first round of signed petitions, demanding a Senate Judiciary Committee investigation into the activities of the DEA. Because Baucus is asserting that the activities of the DEA do not concern him, and that the patients have been helped all they will be by his office, PRN is setting up an office in Montana to right these grievous wrongs.

For further information go to http://www.painreliefnetwork.org

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