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	<title>War on Doctors / Pain Crisis &#187; Opiophobia</title>
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		<title>Principles of Opioid Management of Pain</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>adeluca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am republishing these “Principles of Opioid Management of Pain“, by Dr. Joel Hochman, et al., because of the explosion of deeply flawed and misguided “Guidelines” for pain management in recent years. This document stands alone in meeting the (textbook, ‘responsible physician’) standard for pain management while not violating core ethical obligations of the doctor-patient relationship and is useful, I think, for comparison when studying promulgated Guidelines. [See also: The Distortion of Medicine and Confusion of Standards]]]></description>
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		<title>Treatment of Pain and Substance Abuse</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander DeLuca</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opiophobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Substance Use Disorders]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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		<title>Hurwitz Released &#8211; Challenge of Drug Misuse</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 01:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander DeLuca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spoke to Billy's wife briefly, recently, and am very happy to be able to report that Dr. Hurwitz is no longer in federal prison. He is currently in a half-way house in D.C. and will be transitioning to house arrest as part of his parole and probation requirements...
He is in a sort of "titration to house arrest" best I understand it.

Meaning, he is starting to get overnight visits with his family - YEA! - and more and more of that till he sort of "stabilizes" on a regimen of maintenance house arrest. (Is house arrest a substitution therapy for real life in the new world order?)

Once the titration is complete, he will be able to communicate freely again, and accept visits by invitation. I think he has a job lined up as part of his probation.

Billy Hurwitz is coming back to us!]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Rosa Martinez: New Charges?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander DeLuca</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opiophobia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update on the case of USA v Dr. Martinez in Washington state. Martinez has been acquitted of all drug crime charges. The fraud charges remaining after her 2007 fed trial have also been dismissed, but the govt can bring the fraud charges anew. Also examined is a recent Yakima Herald article announcing "new" charges that are not, in any reality-based sense, "new" at all.]]></description>
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		<title>Pain Crisis: Chickens Come Home to Roost</title>
		<link>http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/archive/chickenroost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander DeLuca</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drug war policy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The article well describes the public health chaos this is the predictable consequence of clinical and public health authorities abandoning their real mission to uphold the medical standard of care for their citizenry, and instead focusing exclusively on the policeman's agenda which prioritizes 'catching a few addicts' over providing adequate pain management for legions of innocent patients.]]></description>
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		<title>APS Conference on Opioid Dosing Guidelines</title>
		<link>http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/archive/aps-guideline-conf/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 21:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander DeLuca</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opioid therapy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpt: "As usual, the academics ignore the elephant in the living room. Regarding review articles that wring their hands about the lack of long term evidence of the safety and efficacy of opioid analgesic therapy, they never discuss the impossibility of measuring the efficacy and safety of a therapy that almost no physician is comfortable doing properly. For an excellent analysis of what we might call the "new academic opiophobia," see the Pain Relief Network's 2008 "WA State Tort Claim" pages 34 - 37."]]></description>
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		<title>PRN files State Tort Claim vs. WA State</title>
		<link>http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/archive/prn-files-state-tort-claim-vs-wa-state/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander DeLuca</dc:creator>
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Pain Relief Network files State Tort Claim vs. WA State; Laura Cooper, Esq.; Pain Relief Network; 2008/07/08. [Full text PDF]





Permalink: http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/archive/prn-tort-claim-vs-wa/

See also:
PRN Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief, and Damages &#8211; 2008
and,
WA&#8217;s Interagency Guideline on Opioid Dosing for Non-Cancer Pain &#8211; 2007







SUMMARY:
Nature of Relief Sought: This lawsuit is the result of grossly misinformed prejudices about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pain Relief Network Sues State of WA</title>
		<link>http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/archive/prn-sues-wa/</link>
		<comments>http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/archive/prn-sues-wa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:15:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander DeLuca</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Liberties, legislation, court]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The nonprofit Pain Relief Network (PRN) says the guidelines for prescribing narcotics, written by the Washington state Department of Health and published in March 2007, have influenced pain treatment across the country and have made doctors afraid to give opiate prescriptions. Siobhan Reynolds, PRN president, says the group decided to target WA because the state has been a leader both in pain treatment and in restricting doctors' prescriptions of pain relief medication. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Collapse of Medical Ethics and Standards for Pain Management</title>
		<link>http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/archive/collapse-med-ethics/</link>
		<comments>http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/archive/collapse-med-ethics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 16:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Fisher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medical ethics & standards]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Talk given by Frank Fisher, M.D.; Drug Cops and Docs, Cato Institute Conference; 2005-09-09. Introduction -- The undertreatment of chronic pain is an ongoing public health disaster. The means to reverse this disaster is a class of medications known as opioid analgesics. The pain crisis exists for just one reason. Physicians don't prescribe enough of these medications. I'm going to explain why we don't. -- The war on drugs has become a war on legal drugs. This exposes physicians to the risk of unwarranted prosecution. In response to this threat, the academic pain establishment has developed a set of standards for the purpose of protecting themselves from prosecution. -- These standards are inimical to appropriate pain care because physician protection is accomplished at the expense of the well being of patients. This occurs through the restriction of necessary treatment. As a result, these standards violate the physician's ethical imperative to put the interests of his patients first. The consequence of this collapse of medical ethics is that the war on drugs is now a war on sick people.]]></description>
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		<title>Overcoming Opiophobia</title>
		<link>http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/archive/overcoming-opiophobia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander DeLuca</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medical ethics & standards]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excellent article by Dr. Forest Tennant explaining and demystifying chronic opioid therapy for chronic pain.]]></description>
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		<title>Jailed Doc Awaits Release on Bond</title>
		<link>http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/archive/jailed-doc-awaits-bond/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:08:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander DeLuca</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opiophobia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[AP news article about Dr. Schneider, who remains in jail awaiting the outcome of legal wrangling regarding conditions of his release on bond.]]></description>
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		<title>An Ethical Analysis of the Barriers to Effective Pain Management</title>
		<link>http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/archive/an-ethical-analysis-of-the-barriers-to-effective-pain-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 02:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander DeLuca</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drug war policy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Resource Is an article discusses the failure of the 'barriers to pain care' literature to analyze those barriers from an ethical POV. The author relates this to 'the collective failure of the profession to recognize the ethical implications of undertreated pain.']]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s About the Pain Crisis&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:44:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Siobhan Reynolds</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Network, protesting a scandalous article by the paper about PRN's involvement in the Dr. Schneider case. Excerpt: "In our movement to reestablish rule of law and to normalize the doctor-patient relationship, we are constantly faced with desperate patients who ask us what do after they have been turned away from care dozens of times. I explained to the reporter that these people were once prosperous, had full lives, and dreams and hope. But merely by suffering a crushing accident or a cancer diagnosis, they find themselves in chronic severe pain and in need of ongoing opioid therapy. They then find themselves abused and reviled by the medical profession, which has adopted a culture of non-treatment. This is born of fear of being targeted by a drug war gone so very wrong."]]></description>
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		<title>Prescription Drug Propaganda</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2008 17:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander DeLuca</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blog post about an example of war on doctors Trash Journalism, which is analyzed. Excerpt: "So what is the message? Well one clear message to me is that the line between pain patient and 'addict' - that pitiable dregs of humanity; the walking dead; that criminal scourge; is thin and vague. In fact it is presented as the slippery slope if not an inevitability - people on chronic opioid therapy are, or will become, addicts. Pain patient, drug addict, who cares? Drug are bad, people who use them are bad, you and I are better than that; they deserve what they get."]]></description>
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		<title>Wichita Patients Having Difficulty Finding Docs</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander DeLuca</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opiophobia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pain Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chilling effect]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Associated Press article about PRN\'s lawsuit against the State of Kansas, the Kansas medical board, and Attorney General Mukasey and the Department of Justice. The article focuses on the continuing plight of the legitimate pain patients of federally indicted and imprisioned Dr. Schneider. The patients claim no local doctors or hospitals will treat them properly for chronic pain out of fear of becoming targets of drug war zealotry, like Dr. Schneider.]]></description>
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		<title>PRN v Kansas, Mukasey, DOJ, et al.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:11:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Siobhan Reynolds</dc:creator>
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 [Comment on/Discuss this document on the Chronic Pain Forums of PRN]
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT &#8211; DISTRICT OF KANSAS

PAIN RELIEF NETWORK, on behalf of patients of Stephen J. Schneider, D.O., 
Plaintiff,[Uzo L. Ohaebosim, Attorney for Plaintiff; 510 N. Main; Wichita, KS  67214; 316-261-5400]
vs.
THE STATE OF KANSAS, THE KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS, MICHAEL [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jailed Doc&#8217;s Patients Sue Govt.</title>
		<link>http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/archive/schneider-patients-sue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander DeLuca</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Medical ethics & standards]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patients of a physician who is charged with running a "pill mill" linked to 56 overdose deaths plan to sue the government, claiming it has put patients in mortal danger and created a public health disaster by prosecuting the doctor. The lawsuit, which names Attorney General Michael Mukasey, U.S. Attorney Eric Melgren, the state of Kansas and the Kansas Board of Healing Arts as defendants, was to be filed Tuesday by the New Mexico-based Pain Relief Network on behalf of the patients of Dr. Stephen Schneider.]]></description>
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		<title>Abandoned Patients Rally in Kansas</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alexander DeLuca</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opiophobia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[AP story about pain patient of indicted Dr. Schneider being unable to find ANY medical care - they have been completely abandonded. This is the chilling effect. This is opiophobia. THIS IS WRONG, AMERICA.]]></description>
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		<title>Chronic Pain &#8211; Politically Incorrect Disease</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 02:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ian McLeod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chronic pain patient experience of abuse and neglect from a medical system distorted by drug war law enforcement imperatives placed on physicians.]]></description>
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		<title>The Good Germans Among Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Fisher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Frank Fisher relates a chilling experience with a hospitalized friend in horrifically undertreated pain to a recent New York Times article on torture and American foreign and domestic policy.]]></description>
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