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Excellent pro-Obama youTube video extension/take-off of what was originally an Anheuser-Busch beer commercial.

Associated Press article about the Kansas Board of Healing Arts (aka the medical board, aka the KASBAH) reneged on an earlier agreement with the Pain Relief Network to forego action against Dr. Schneider\’s license until a full hearing of the facts could be had.

Two poems by Dr. William Hurwitz: “Billy’s Lament” and “The Appeal”; published doctordeluca.com; 2005. I like these poems. I’ve characterized the voice as Dr. Suess Meets Lenny Bruce, and I mean no disrespect to any of these three poets. In these two poems Dr. Hurwitz also reviews his conviction and the basic strategy for his appeal.

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.”)

Blog post: Use Your Eyes – Residence Investigation (1960’s police training film); Unknown filmmaker; Unknown creation date. Posted: 2007-08-31. Dopey police training film.

See the more recent, PRN in ‘World of Pain’… Videos, which includes a superset of the links and resources in this post.

Odd drug use youTube video from Brussels…

Dr. Fisher last practiced medicine some eight years ago. In the interval he has been criminally prosecuted for murder, civilly sued for wrongful death, and administratively prosecuted by the State of California medical board and stripped of his licenses to practice and prescribe. “I call it triple jeopardy,” he says. “That’s why doctors won’t treat [chronic pain].” All of this because he presumed to treat poor people to the medical [standard of care][soc] for chronic pain, which is opioid titration to analgesic effect or to untreatable side-effect. [...]

War on Doctors/Pain Crisis blog entry presenting the embedded trailer for the documentary, ‘High – the true tale of American Marijuana.

Prohibita-chloride Really Works. — And now we pause for a moment of enjoyment and laughter. — Thank you to Mr. James Stack for making me aware of Incarcerex, and for making this informative video so easily available to us all, through his website: http://www.jamesstacks.com/ Enjoy!

Belated updates to the Hurwitz Collection. I’m slowly starting to get back into the swing of things. There is very little chatter on the closed listServ’s about how the trial is going, no daily updates we became used to during the appeal. I’m going down to see one day of the trial for myself – earliest I could get away would be next Tuesday and I’ll plan on that. Will try to get sense of how it is going in the meantime. More soon… ..alex… Trafficker or Healer? And Who’s the Victim? John Tierney; New York Times; 2007-03-27…

Blog item about getting the blog set up that could be of no possible interest to anyone.

One of the very early posts – a “Welcome to the War on Doctors/Pain Crisis blog of the Addiction, Pain and Public Health website” housekeeping post.

The Accidental Drug Trafficker (full text) Jacob Sullum; ReasonOnline; 2006-08-30. Source Excerpt: “[Sullum repudiates] prosecutions that treat doctors’ errors in judgment as felonies… Docs who err on the side of trusting their patients risk their licenses and their livelihoods. They should not have to risk their freedom.” See also: Unbalanced Coverage of Hurwitz’ Successful Appeal – Maia Szalavitz, STATS, 2006-08-23. Conviction Overturned , Judge Erred in Jury Instructions – Jerry Markon; Washington Post; page B01; 2006-08-23 . Hurwitz Wins Appeal – Letter from Family to Advocates and Former Patients – Ken Hurwitz; 2006-08-23. Ominous Implications of the Hurwitz Appeal Decision? – Bill Marcus; …

Candidate Gallagher Strikes Out Unjustly at Dr. Merrill (full text) John P. Flannery; Pain Relief Network press release; 2006-07-01. Excerpt: ‘Florida,’ Flannery said, ‘has a policy of intimidating any doctor who would dare to help chronic pain patients, and [the prescribing doc] and the patients [are] criminalized. Gallagher makes great pretense at having ‘family values’ and yet he has thrown his political weight against those families who value a loved one suffering from chronic pain.’ Comment (DeLuca): Drug War prosecutors and pathological liars like DEA Administor Karen Tandy can consider this a warning shot. If you attack a pain doc for selfish and …