Posts Tagged With: painreliefnetwork

Unrelieved pain has a devastating impact on the physical, emotional, social, and economic well being of patients and their families. Diagnosing and treating pain is, therefore, fundamental to the public health. Terminology is review, myths identified, and medical understanding is stated.

The judge wouldn’t sign the Temporary Restraining Order, but prior to the administrative hearing, our attorney agreed with the KASBAH board attorney to put off acting against Dr. Schneider’s license until we have a full hearing. This means that for the first time since PRN started operating, we were able to actually intervene in the destruction of a clinic and its patients. [...]

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.

Blog entry by Siobhan Reynolds, president Pain Relief Network. First paragraph: “This essay, excerpted below, by Law Enforcement Against Prohibition ([LEAP][leap]) blogger James Anthony focuses on raids against state licensed medical marijuana cooperatives, but could just as easily be about raids on medical offices of state licensed physicians who issue legal prescriptions for pain medications to people in pain. said about our doctor busts.”

In jury trials, what is more important than factual guilt or innocence is the reasoning and beliefs of the jurors. If the trials of Richard Paey, William Mangino, and others have taught us anything, it is that actual innocence is not a reliable defense. I think I know why.

Letter from Linda Paey to the pain relief advocates of the Pain Relief Network expressing her gratitude to all concerned for her husband’s safe return to their family.

Press release from Siobhan Reynolds and the Pain Relief Network about the pardon of Richard Paey by Gov Charlie Crist of Florida, September 2007. Ms Reynolds mentions organizations and journalists deserving of thanks in this successful effort. Links to these are provided.

Letter from attorney John Flannery to the pain advocacy community reflecting on the case of Richard Paey, now fully pardoned, and the role played by Siobhan Reynolds and the Pain Relief Network in producing this major victory in the Pain Crisis.

“This final meeting determines Richard\’s fate, either they allow him to come home to his family after 3 1/2 years in prison, or he will have to serve his mandatory 25 year sentence.” – Linda Paey (Richard\’s Wife)

This is it, tomorrow is the day, and I am at once elated and anxious. Tomorrow, the petition for clemency for 48 year old Richard Paey, a wheelchair-bound Florida man with failed back syndrome and Multiple Sclerosis, and a morphine pump in his spine courtesy of the State of Florida Dept. of Corrections, will be heard.

The unofficial soundtrack to the Pain Relief Network’s civil liberties movement for people in chronic pain. (Embedded music video of CAKE playing “Stickshifts and Safety Belts” and “Love you madly.”)

Dr. Mangino’s comments on “bonding out of jail” – excerpt: “have ‘Bonded’ out of jail as of 5 P.M. today. I thank those several people who contributed the $ 3900 dollars I needed to be released. My attorneys also worked very hard…”

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.