Blog entry. Several days ago Dr. William Mangino that this blog has followed in depth (see links above and below), sent me three documents, some fifteen pages in all, handwritten in block text, which I will call “Mangino Petitioner\’s Motion” including a legal brief, and supporting documents to the judge.” (Available as PDF) [...]
Blog post excerpt: “Just to get the terminology and basic facts straight: cannabidiols are a family of similar molecules with similar pharmacological properties that differ somewhat from those of THC, which is not a cannabidiol. Both cannabidiols and THC are cannabinoids… Indica strains are higher in cannabidiols, and are historically more valued as medicinals than are Sativa strains.” Post links to a number of excellent articles in full text, mostly from academic medical journals.
Purdue Pharma was coerced, under threat of destruction by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), into pleading guilty to charges that their drug was “more addictive” than they had claimed, the government alleging that the company failed to inform both doctors and the public of this information when it came available. The problem for Americans in pain is that this private deal creates, if you will, a “fact” on the public record that is not factual, a “fact” that severely prejudices the interests of patients in pain. [...]
Two poems by Dr. William Hurwitz: “Billy’s Lament” and “The Appeal”; published doctordeluca.com; 2005. I like these poems. I’ve characterized the voice as Dr. Suess Meets Lenny Bruce, and I mean no disrespect to any of these three poets. In these two poems Dr. Hurwitz also reviews his conviction and the basic strategy for his appeal.
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… On the other hand, state rules and regulations are often at odds with the spirit and specifics of the WHO guidelines, and of ethical medicine.
Experience of chronic pain patient with gross undertreatment of pain, and substandard medical care in general, at the hands of VA medical providers.
Archive with links to testimony, supplemental documents, video interviews, and radio interviews related to House of Representatives Subcommittee on Crime hearings on “DEA’s Regulation of Medicine” in July, 2007.
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