Archive for: August 2007

Blog post: Use Your Eyes – Residence Investigation (1960’s police training film); Unknown filmmaker; Unknown creation date. Posted: 2007-08-31. Dopey police training film.

Blog post drawing attention to Radley Balko’s late August article on Fox website which is a very thorough review of this important case in the modern war on doctors. See the Rottschaefer archives linked to above for key legal briefs in addition to high points in the journalistic record. Links to archives on Dr. Hurwitz, Dr. McIver.

Blog post featuring link to Associated Press video of Siobhan Reynolds talking about the life and death of her husband Sean Greenwood in 2007. Footage is part of AP’s ‘World of Pain’ package released Aug 2007. This entry also provides links to 3 other videos featuring the PRN. 1: Siobhan, Ronan, Dr. Coles, Dr. Siegle on Mike and Juliet show (Fox); 2: James Fernandez, veteran, talks about his military career and life severely limited by undertreated chronic pain; and 3: The Chilling Effect – documentary by S. Reynolds about her family, and the family of Richard and Linda Paey.

Blog post about a Letter to the Editor (LTE) to an Alabama paper entitled, ‘Answer to methadone is God’. Begins, “What is interesting about the LTE reprinted in full below, is that the writer, a nurse, is describing behavior that any reasonable person can imagine, and would excuse, a chronically undermedicated person with severe chronic pain for displaying. [...]”

Newspaper article focusing on Siobhan Reynolds, founder and President of the Pain Relief Network (PRN) and her life experience of trying to get decent medical care for a husband in chronic pain, while raising a child and founding a movement for social change – the Pain Relief advocacy movement.

See the more recent, PRN in ‘World of Pain’… Videos, which includes a superset of the links and resources in this post.

Blog post about phone conversation with incarcerated Dr. William Hurwitz about recent prescription drug propaganda, and about a planned government appeal of his sentence, in which case the Hurwitz Defense would appeal the conviction.

Associated Press story from their ‘World of Pain’ package. Covers changes in medical view of opioids for cancer and non-cancer pain, the chilling effect of law enforcement on appropriate prescribing, and offers some specific DEA statistics for Arizona.

Associated press article from their “World of Pain” mixed media package. Touches on the chilling effect, persecuted physicians, pain crisis in America, and the war on doctors.

Blog post: Governor Crist and the Board of Clemency has granted Richard Paey a waiver of the rules so that his petition for clemency can be considered immediately. By Richard Paey’s PRN-affiliated attorney, John Flannery.

Editorial from the Washington Times about DEA’s war on doctors and the pain crisis in America that has resulted in the casual and routine undertreatment of moderate to severe chronic pain. Article focuses on the tragic story of James Fernandez, a combat disabled vet of the first Gulf War.

Blog post about a Continuing Medical Education (CME) course based solely on one interesting and flawed article about the prevalence of addiction in primary care chronic pain patients treated with chronic opioid therapy.

Reuters UK reports on recent research on substance use disorders in a population of chronic pain patients receiving daily opioid analgesic medications for at least 3 months. The subjects were 801 patients from 235 different family practices with “severe, incapacitating, [non-cancer] pain. 3.8 percent met the clinical criteria for opioid use disorder, compared with a rate of 0.9 percent reported in the general population. The elephant-in-the-living-room question is “what percent met clinical criteria for successful titration of medication to satisfactory analgesic effect,” but NIDA et al. haven’t even bothered to define the phenomena of “good pain relief” nor invented a …

Blog post by Dr. William Mangino on the occasion of his making bail pending sentencing. Excerpt: “Now I know what (pro bono legal consultant) Mary Baluss meant when she asked me ‘Have you ever seen a real trial?’ … In reality, every witness testifying against me, except two, lied or significantly twisted the truth in my trial. The most honest guy was the DEA Agent who admitted that the government had no definition of legitimate medical practice. But the jurors never fully understood that this meant that they needed to factor that into their decision.”

Odd drug use youTube video from Brussels…