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Addiction, Pain and Public Health website

docalex — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:41:32 GMT

aka doctordeluca.com - site is a rich repository of full text academic, legal, journalistic and advocacy resources focusing on the federal attacks on pain doctors and pain patients, substance abuse, controlled drinking, harm reduction and psychopharmacology.

Drug Law Blog

docalex — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 05:27:26 GMT

DeLuca on the Pain Doctor Crackdown; Alex Coolman; Drug War Blog; 2007-06-02.

Excerpt:

"This week Alex DeLuca had an interesting post on the nationwide criminal crackdown on pain doctors and in particular on the effects that this crackdown is having on patients who were previously under the care of these doctors. The bizarre thing, DeLuca notes, is that people who were once steady on pain management medication are instantly being reclassified as "addicts," with no distinction being made between dependence and addiction."

The post by me referred to is:

Utah and Federal Law Enforcement Collaborate Towards a Final Solution to the Prescription Drug Abuse Plague; Alex DeLuca; War on Doctors / Pain Crisis; 2007-05-3

Mangino to Represent Self in Nov. 28 Hearing

docalex — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:19:05 GMT

Several days ago Dr. William Mangino whose case the Pain Relief Network has been involved with, and that the War on Docs/Pain Crisis blog has followed in depth (see links below), sent me three documents, some fifteen pages in all, handwritten in block text, which I will call Mangino Petitioner's Motion including: 1. a two page letter to Judge Motto, 2. a six page Brief in Support of Petitioner's Motion, and, 3. a nine page Supplement to the Brief in Support All three handwritten documents available, as a single PDF. The Persecution of Dr. Willia

USA v Dr. Martinez goes to Jury - Not Guilty on Drug Charges

docalex — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:54:24 GMT

Excerpt: By targeting banal and ordinary medical practice, the Federal government gets the maximal chilling effect bang for their buck. The message of this case to physicians nationwide couldn’t be clearer - no physician prescribing opioid analgesic therapy for chronic pain is safe, even if you are obviously not a “pill mill,” obviously are a professional M.D., and are not even a “high dose prescriber” chronic pain doctor.

Utah / Feds Boldly Move Toward Solution to Addiction

docalex — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 01:04:11 GMT

Excerpt: So, what have we got? We have local officials running around preparing for a hypothetical law enforcement problem the policeman is hyping. Through some horrific leap of irrationality and probably criminal negligence, state and local officials have taken law enforcement’s worst case scenario - that the doctor was a drug dealer, all of his “patients” criminal addicts, all the meds all of them were ever prescribed were 100% diverted to high school students leading to generations of misery and crime for sure - and blotted out any notion that there might be a medically directed public health approach to consider. And no criminal charges [against Dr. William Stack] have even been filed yet.

End-of-Life Pain Management: - a Criminal Offense?; Robert Weitzel, M.D.; 2003

docalex — Sat, 06 May 2006 17:10:48 GMT

End-of-Life Pain Management: - a Criminal Offense?; Robert Weitzel, M.D.; Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons Volume; 8(4); 2003.

TheAgitator.com: "Not a War on Doctors"...

docalex — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 06:33:19 GMT

Radley Balko - The Agitator blog. Libertarian, Cato Institute. Militarization of police - SWAT abuses. War on Doctors / Pain Crisis. A blog I read regularly

FlanneryHome

docalex — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 14:34:32 GMT

Website of prosecutor-turned-defense counsel, John Flannery. Flannery has worked with the Pain Relief Network - http://www.painreliefnetwork.org/ - on several important War on Doctors cases, including: -- Dr. Ronald McIver - http://tinyurl.com/3czgfe -- Richard Paey - http://tinyurl.com/2q5d9n -- Dr. Paul Maynard - http://tinyurl.com/36e2g5 -- Dr. Nucklos - http://tinyurl.com/3xf4yn -- Dr. Merril - http://tinyurl.com/36mypl

Oakmont doctor loses appeal in drug conviction

docalex — Sat, 06 May 2006 12:56:24 GMT

Peace Corps Online | William E. Hurwitz, M.D., J.D. - 1973-1975 Medical Director, U.S. Peace Corps, Brazil

docalex — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 05:40:39 GMT

Peace Corps Online | William E. Hurwitz, M.D., J.D. - 1973-1975 Medical Director, U.S. Peace Corps, Brazil