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Treatment of Pain and Substance Abuse

docalex — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:59:11 GMT

When specialists and academics and researchers come together to discuss common barriers to optimal pain management, they have found opioid therapy complicated, in both the pain medicine and addiction medicine fields, by misapprehensions and myths. Portenoy and Payne identified “Four types of phenomena that exemplify the accommodations that must be made to further [the goal of dissemination of accurate and up to date information to the fields].” 2 I will consider these briefly, excerpting from “Pain Specialists and Addiction Medicine Specialists Unite to Address Critical Issues.” 3

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.

Compare Del.icio.us and Stumbleupon.com website statistics and traffic graphs on Statsaholic

docalex — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:49:19 GMT

Can compare any three at a time.

Connotea is a Database - Innovative ways to use Connotea

docalex — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 02:50:08 GMT

Connotea, a bibliographically-oriented social bookmarking website, is for much more than just bibliographic references.

DEA: a Psychological Terror Group

docalex — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 20:37:01 GMT

Siobhan Reynolds, president of the Pain Relief Network comments briefly on an essay, by a law enforcement office who is a member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), about the method and madness behind DEA's attacks on pain patients requiring controlled substances, medical marijuana patients, and on physicians who would minister to both of these government demonized groups, were it not for armed, federal intrusion into the (State licensed and regulated) doctor-patient relationship. ..alex...

New Digg Profiles Launch

docalex — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 02:13:03 GMT

Informative brief video covering newer features of Digg social bookmarking site.

Patriot Act Details

docalex — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:08:06 GMT

The USA PATRIOT Act, 2001,grants sweeping new powers to law enforcement and intelligence gathering authorities. The Act offers a broad definition... subject non-terrorist political groups to surveillance, wiretapping, harassment, and criminal action: * (§802) Allows secret searches, perform roving wiretaps, and gain access to highly personal medical, financial, mental health, and student records. * (§206 and §507) Authorizes forcing librarians and booksellers to hand over records * (§215) Allows investigate citizens for criminal activity without probable cause... * (§218) Allows search a person's home without anyone present and to delay notification indefinitely.

URL Encoding

docalex — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 17:47:53 GMT

What are those "%20" codes in URLs? NEAT UTILITY: scroll down to use the: URL encoding converter which below allows you to convert content between its unencoded and encoded forms. The initial input state is considered to be "unencoded" (hit 'Convert' at the beginning to start in the encoded state.) Further, to allow actual URLs to be encoded, this little converter does not encode URL syntax characters (the ";", "/", "?", ":", "@", "=", "#" and "&" characters)...if you also need to encode these characters for any reason, see the "Reserved characters" table above for the appropriate encoded values.

Video - Social Bookmarking in Plain English

docalex — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:15:02 GMT

Common Craft - Explanations In Plain English