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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.

Digg search now with RSS

docalex — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:36:16 GMT

Type in the keywords, NASA picture, then choose the drop down, search promoted. This instructs digg to give me all stories containing the words nasa picture that have, at one point, been promoted to the homepage From here I’m presented with a small RSS button in the upper right... links to the feed for this search allowing you to subscribe. - Friends Aggregator: Another feature to check out is the digg ‘friends’ aggregator. If you have several friends using digg (or other digg members who’s content you enjoy) simply add them as friends in your profile. As your friends digg, feeds are created to track their activity.

DrugSense: Drug Law Reform - DrugSense Mission Statement

docalex — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 21:38:22 GMT

DrugSense and its largest project MAP combine to form a 501 c3 non-profit corporation. We exist to provide accurate information relevant to drug policy in order to heighten awareness of the extreme damage being caused to our nation and the world by our current flawed and failed "War on Drugs." We aim to inform the public of the existence of rational alternatives to the drug war, and to help organize citizens to bring about needed reforms.

Fed Seeks to Gag Schneiders/PRN

docalex — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:32:49 GMT

Excerpt from AP article: "[Reynolds] said prosecutors should not be attacking constitutional rights: 'I’m shocked that the government would try to get a gag order against a political activist. I find that stunning.'"

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

Medical Guidelines are not Prosecutorial Tools

docalex — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 05:07:26 GMT

"The WHO guidelines were never intended to be used as a prosecutorial tool. The invocation of the WHO “analgesic ladder” concept of progressive pharmacological treatment of pain, in state investigations of physicians, is sometimes unfair. On the one hand the guidelines are interpreted as rules and the physician is faulted for violating in some aspect. On the other hand, state rules and regulations are often at odds with the spirit and specifics of the WHO guidelines..."

Pain Patients Excluded from Senate Hearings

docalex — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:39:00 GMT

Siobhan Reynolds; President, Pain Relief Network; Submitted testimony to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs, “Gen Rx: Abuse of Prescription and OTC Drugs“; 2008-03-08 Conclusion: "It is unfortunate that Pain Relief Network was not invited to represent the patients at this hearing, and so the public will instead be treated to a kind of government fear show pushing this year’s moral panic, prescription drug abuse, that seeks merely to distract attention away from the government’s astonishingly brutal and thoughtless drug war campaigns, willfully ignoring direct harm to millions of innocent citizens, though their plight is in plain view."

PRN in World of Pain - Videos

docalex — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 04:46:35 GMT

This is an addendum to my recent post: PRN on Video, which provided links to the three PRN related videos in the ‘See also’ section, above.

To these:

- Siobhan, Ronan, Dr. Cole and Dr. Siegle on Fox
- AP interview with veteran James Fernandez
- The Chilling Effect - documentary by S. Reynolds

I add this short video of Siobhan Reynolds speaking about her husband, Sean Greenwood, co-founder of the Pain Relief Network, and chronic pain patient who died, in agony, earlier this year. This clip is part of the Associated Press media package, ‘World of Pain.’

PRN v Kansas, Mukasey, DOJ, et al.

docalex — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 01:35:43 GMT

PAIN RELIEF NETWORK, on behalf of patients of Stephen J. Schneider, D.O., Plaintiff,
vs.
THE STATE OF KANSAS, THE KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS, MICHAEL MUKASEY, in his official capacity as United States Attorney General; ERIC F. MELGREN, in his official capacity as the United States Attorney for the District of Kansas, and THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, Defendants. "INTRODUCTION # 1. This is an action brought by the Pain Relief Network, on behalf of patients of Dr. Stephen J. Schneider, seeking declaratory and injunctive relief on an emergency basis and accordingly petitioning this Court as follows: * (A) to declare palliative care (in the form of FDA-approved pharmaceuticals) a fundamental right of patients in severe pain..

The Double Effect of Pain Medication - Separating Myth from Reality

docalex — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:10:25 GMT

Very good review of this important principle: ..alex... ABSTRACT - The principle of double effect is used to justify the administration of medication to relieve pain even though it may lead to the unintended, although foreseen, consequence of hastening death by causing respiratory depression. Although a review of the medical literature reveals that the risk of respiratory depression from opioid analgesic is more myth than fact and that there is little evidence that the use of medication to control pain hastens death, the belief in the double effect of pain medication remains widespread. Applying the principle of double effect to end-of-life issues perpetuates this myth and results in the undertreatment of physical suffering at the end of life. The concept