PRN in ‘World of Pain’… Videos

*PRN in ‘World of Pain’… Videos – Excerpt of Siobhan Reynolds interviewed by Associated Press from their ‘World of Pain’ media package*, Aug. 2007; Alex DeLuca; War on Doctors/Pain Crisis blog of the Pain Relief Network; 2007-08-24. Revised: 2008-06-28.

See also these PRN-related videos:
Siobhan, Ronan, Dr. Cole and Dr. Siegle on Fox
AP interview with veteran James Fernandez
The Chilling Effect – documentary by S. Reynolds
War on Docs/Pain Crisis on YouTube

ALL OF WHICH, and more, is now available from:
The Pain Relief Network’s New! Media Page
A central source of audio and video by or about PRN

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 those 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.’ (The link will open a QuickTime player, which can take a moment – be patient)

While the overall AP ‘World of Pain’ package has been very successful for the Associated Press, having made the front page in well over 50 newspapers nationwide, what is being done with a years worth of data gathering and interviews involving easily dozens of reporters and content producers, is disappointing in many ways. Jacob Sullum’s gets it exactly right in his criticism of the lead article, Pain Medicine Use Doubles – Pain Patients Suffer:

… A.P. has a confusing jumble of a story on the subject with an ambivalent tone summed up in the lead: “People in the United States are living in a world of pain and they are popping pills at an alarming rate to cope with it.” If people are “living in a world of pain,” why is their consumption of painkillers alarming”?
- (Sullum, Reason, 2007-08-20)

The AP video of the Pain Relief Network members Fernandez and Reynolds stand out in stark contrast to much of the rest of the work produced so far from ‘the world of pain’ that is the AP. I have more to say about the AP reporting on the prescription drug crisis/undertreatment of chronic pain problem, including some good things and interesting details I’ve noticed.

But for tonight, James Fernandez and Siobhan Reynolds and Ronan Greenwood speak simply and honestly, from real experience of what real Americans living with real chronic pain have to contend with every day in a system that cares more about catching and criminalizing the few drug ‘abusers’ than it does relieving the suffering of the many with chronic pain.

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