Archive for: June 2006

Physician [Jorge Martinez] Gets Life for Drug Deaths (full text) Mike Tobin, Cleveland Plain Dealer, 2006-06-10. Source Comment (DeLuca): Reporter Mike Tobin has done his readership a great disservice in his glib and shallow effort. The article is entirely one-sided; the …

Pain Killer (full text) Frank Fisher, M.D., Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin, 2006 Excerpt: “In 1995, the Medical Board of California declared that the undertreatment of chronic pain was more problematic than its overtreatment [and set forth] guidelines for treating chronic pain with …

Cannabinoids In Medicine: A Review Of Their Therapeutic Potential (Abstract, References and link to Full Text PDF) Mohamed Ben Amar; Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 102(1-2), 1-25; 2006-04-21.
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Doctors: New Target in the War On Drugs? (full text) Wayne J. Guglielmo; Medical Economics; 2006-05-19. Source Excerpt: Does the US Attorney General and the prosecutors who work for him have the right to decide whether a doctor is practicing good …

On Delivering One’s Wife to Federal Prison (full text) Ed Swaim (husband of Dr. Bordeaux); Addiction, Pain and Public Health website; 2006-06-07. Comment (DeLuca): Letter from Ed Swaim to the pain management advocates of the listServs of the Pain Relief Network] …

The OxyCops (full text) William Fisher; OpEdNews.com; 2006-03-22. Source Excerpt: Hundreds of physicians have been put on trial for charges ranging from health insurance fraud to drug distribution, even to manslaughter and murder for over-prescribing prescription narcotics. Investigators have also seized …

‘The Doctor Wasn’t Cruel Enough’ (full text) Maia Szalavitz; Reason Online; 2006-06-02. Posted: 2006-06-03. Source Excerpt: “Usually, the media buy the tale of evil substances and vile physician-pushers. But Reynolds (of the Pain Relief Network) offered a more compelling alternative …