PRN to Obama: Stop the War on Sick People
Pain Relief Network to Obama Administration: STAND DOWN in War on Patients and Doctors; Siobhan Reynolds, Pain Relief Network; 2009-05-18. Source
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Dr. Johnston v USA, Petition for Writ of Certiorari to Supreme Court (PDF)
Laura D. Cooper and Kevin P. Byers, filed: 2009-05-01
WASHINGTON, DC (May 18, 2009) – The Pain Relief Network (PRN) is calling on the Obama Administration to require the U.S. Department of Justice to join the organization’s recent filing of a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari before the United States Supreme Court on behalf of Dr. Sharon Johnston.
“Regardless of how you try to explain to people it’s a ‘war on drugs’ or a ‘war on a product,’ people see a war as a war on them,” [newly confirmed confirmed "drug czar" head of ONDCP, Gil Kerlikowske] said. “We’re not at war with people in this country.”
“This is a great opportunity for the Obama Administration to put its money where its mouth is concerning what is perhaps the most damaging aspect of the failed War On Drugs,” said Siobhan Reynolds, President of PRN and nationally renowned pain relief advocate.
“The Department of Justice has been prosecuting physicians at a frightening clip. The DEA has charged some 400 doctors with violating Federal drug dealing laws within the context of their medical practices since 2003. While the DEA was clearly proud of the figure when it released it to the Orlando Sentinel, the Obama Administration should stop the carnage at once.”
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addiction , any addiction is a disease of the mind body and soul one looses choice, iff a doctor knows his patient/s have the disease of addiction and knowingly writes out scripts for mood altering chemicals and sedatives that dr. is then feeding addiction, and killing that person. doctors whom do this are criminals. there is no doubt about that. there are also many examples of wellness from all over the world from well people in alcoholics anonymous and narcotics anonymous whom dont take these pills and are alive as a result of not takeing them. total abstinence is the answer with the help of a.a. and n.a. it works iff one works it. my own son was killed in western australia by a incompetant negligent dr. who fed his addiction , this dr. professes to have known my sons background,, he is one of the true criminals in the medical area of which something must be done about stopping these practices altogether once and for all too many people are dead as a resulty of some barstard hideing behind his qualifications, this dr. didnt care , he didnt practice good medicine,there was no preventative medicine there was prejudice playing god and non care.
Dear grieved,
I am, of course, sorry to hear about what happened to your son, and surely irresponsible physicians exist out there. And I do not know what the legal/regulatory structure is in Australia. But in the U.S., the licensing and regulation of Medicine is reserved through the Constitution to the States, all of which have State Medical Boards one can complain to, and further one can bring civil suit against a physician for malpractice – which is what sounds like maybe happened in your son's case.
I object to NONE of that. State medical board regulation is, in concept, fine with me, nor have I ever written anything against holding physicians to State standards (except where these are opiophobic) and NEVER against civil malpractice claims.
I strenuously do object, however, to the current and longstanding federal drug war witch-hunt against opioid prescribing physicians, I object to defacto federal law-enforcement regulation of pain medicine which I find unconstitutional, and I object to charging physicians with federal drug crimes, as if they were drug cartels, and then putting on a malpractice trial.
That is unfair, un-American, and is a primary source of the pain crisis, at least in America.
Sincerely, ..alex…
Dear Grieved,____My condolances for your son as well, however, your circumstances do qualify you an expert on addiction, the art and science of medicine or U.S. law.____Perhaps you should educate yourself on the differences between "Addiction" and "dependence", as this seems to be a rather undefined difference in people who make ignorant assumptions and statements.____Dr. Wolf