Radley Balko Letter To Editor response to "Prescription for Pain"

LTE in Response to “Prescription for Pain” – Balko, Boston Globe, 2006-01-13.

“The medical literature overwhelmingly shows that so-called accidental addiction is rare… Obviously, one wouldn’t expect a district attorney to be up on all the medical literature. But the fact that we don’t expect such knowledge from our law-enforcement officials is a pretty convincing argument against letting police and prosecutors determine what is and isn’t acceptable medical treatment.”

See also: The Chilling Effect – a documentary film by Reynolds and Hendler, Pain Relief Network, Released: 2006.

Prescription for Pain (for Richard Paey) – Boston Globe Editorial, 2006-02-05.

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