http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress The blog of the PAIN RELIEF NETWORK Tue, 13 May 2008 01:45:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Overcoming Opiophobia and Doing Opioids Right; Forest Tennant; PainTopics.org; May, 2007. (Full text PDF) See also: Chronic Pain in Veterans - DeLuca; 2007 and, Bounds of Medical Practice, and the Standard of Care - DeLuca; 2007 and, Untreated Chronic Pain is a Medical Emergency - DeLuca; 2008 A More Practical Perspective on Opioids Most arguments against the use ... http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/overcoming-opiophobia/375/ Big Prescription Drug Lies; Alex DeLuca; War on Doctors/Pain Crisis blog of the Pain Relief Network; 2008-04-27.  See also: Self-Refuting Drug Warriors - Sullum; Reason; 2008-04-18 The Challenge of Prescription Drug Misuse - Hurwitz; Pain Medicine; 2005 Jacob Sullum makes an important point in a recent item on the Reason Hit and Run blog ... http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/prescription-lies/374/ Schneider Says Case Got Out of Hand; Ron Sylvester; The Wichita Eagle; 2008-04-26. Source. See also: Prosecutors Seek to Shut Up Doctor, Critics - Drug War Chronicle; 2008-04-11 Doctor, Wife Held Incommunicado from Family - Hegeman, AP; 2008-01-10 Stephen Schneider said if the Kansas Board of Healing Arts had conducted its investigation into his ... http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/schneider-says/372/ Jailed Kansas Doctor Awaiting Release On Bond On Friday; Roxana Hegeman; Associated Press; 2008-04-24. Source. Brief Comment from me: Note the Judge did not grant Prosecutor Tanya Treadway's disturbing request that a "no-contact" condition (gag order) extend to "members of the Pain Relief Network advocacy group, including its leader, Siobhan Reynolds." So ... http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/jailed-doc-awaits-bond/369/ More Limits Sought for Schneider Bond; Ron Sylvester; The Wichita Eagle; 2008-04-24. Source. Comment on/Discuss this post on PRN's Pain Forums See also: Judge Orders Schneider Released - DeLuca on Release Order, 04/23/08 Prosecutors Try to Silence Pain Activist - Szalavitz; 04/08/08 Just a brief comment from me: This is starting to get ... http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/more-limits-sought-for-schneider-bond/368/ Judge Orders Dr. Schneider Released; Alexander DeLuca; War on Doctors/Pain Crisis blog of the Pain Relief Network; 2008-04-23. Comment on/Discuss this post on PRN's Pain Forums My comments Regarding: U.S. District Court - District of Kansas U.S.A. v. Stephen and Linda Schneider Memorandum and Order (PDF) - Judge D.W. Bostwick, 2008-04-21 (releasing Stephen Schneider, on Wednesday ... http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/schneider-released/367/ To Those Who Deny the Pain Crisis; Siobhan Reynolds; War on Doctors/Pain Crisis blog of the Pain Relief Network; 2008-04-21. Comment on or Discuss this post on PRN's Pain Forums See also: Chronic Pain in America - Roadblocks to Relief American Pain Society, 1999 and, War on Drugs, War on Doctors, and the Pain Crisis in ... http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/deny-pain-crisis/366/ Doctor Seeks to Quash Subpoenas on Malpractice Settlements; Roxana Hegeman; Associated Press, Fort Mill Times; 2008-04-18. Source. Comment on/Discuss this post on PRN's Pain Forums See also: It's the Pain Crisis... - Siobhan Reynolds, LTE: Topeka Capital-Journal; 2008-04-04 Feds Seek Gag Orders in "Pill Mill" Case - Associated Press; 2008-04-05 Every time I think this ... http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/schneider-quash-subpoenas/364/ An Ethical Analysis of the Barriers to Effective Pain Management (Introduction and link to full text pdf) - Ben A. Rich; Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 9: 54-70, 2000. See also: The Collapse of Medical Ethics and Standards for Pain Management Frank Fisher, M.D., Drug Cops / Docs conf., Cato, 2005 and, AMA’s Code of ... http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/an-ethical-analysis-of-the-barriers-to-effective-pain-management/40/ Prosecutors Try to Silence Pain Activist, Don't Like Fair Play; Maia Szalavitz; The Huffington Post; 2008-04-08. Source. See also: It's About the Pain Crisis - Siobhan Reynolds; 2008-04-04 Erie, PA: Dr. Klees Incarcerated, Dr. Heberle Exonerated, Pain Patients Abandoned When prosecutors want to convict a doctor of "drug dealing," they often sow suspicions by ... http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/prosecutors-try-gag-prn/345/ Letters: It's About the Pain Crisis; Siobhan Reynolds, Pain Relief Network; Topeka Capital Journal; 2008-04-04. Source. [Comment on / Discuss this LTE on PRN's Pain Forums] This LTE specifically in reference to: Physician Prolific at Writing Prescriptions - Topeka-Capitol; 2003 See also: Siobhan Reynolds - Still Fighting Pain - Albuquerque Journal; 2007. On March 28th, this ... http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/its-the-pain-crisis/344/ Feds Request Gag Order in 'Pill Mill' Prosecution; Associated Press; Topeka Capitol-Journal Online; 2008-04-05. Source.[Comments / Discussion on PRN's Pain Forums] See also: PRN vs Kansas & DOJ - the Complete Lawsuit (ZIP) PRN in Kansas News Archive WICHITA — Federal prosecutors asked a federal judge Friday to issue a gag order to silence ... http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/fed-seeks-gag/340/ Prescription Drug Propaganda - Conflating Opioid Therapy with Addiction; Alex DeLuca; War on Doctors/Pain Crisis blog of the Pain Relief Network; 2007-08-15. Revised: 2008-04--05. Comment on /Discuss this on PRN's Pain Forums Every once in a while it is important to fully immerse oneself in the madness, to read every sentence of ... http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/prescription-drug-propaganda/191/ Wanted: A Public Health Approach to Prescription Opioid Abuse and Diversion (PDF) David E. Joranson and Aaron M. Gilson; Pharmacoepidemiology and Drug Safety; 15(9): 632-634; 2006. [Comment on/Discuss this post on PRN's Pain Forums] Excerpt: [Efforts] to reduce mortality from opioids must be [targeted] at those who cause the problem... However, targeting interventions requires ... http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/public-health-approach-diversion/4/ Kan. Ag's Office Keeping Eye on Pain Relief Network's President; Roxana Hegeman; Associated Press; 2008-03-25. [Comments / Discussion on PRN's Forums] See also: Comment on 'Patients Claim Govt Harrassment' - DeLuca, 2008-03-23 WICHITA, Kan. (AP) -- The Kansas attorney general's office is monitoring actions by the president of the Pain Relief Network to ... http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/tanya-eyes-pr/331/ Comment on: "Schneider Patients Claim Gov't Harassment"; Alexander DeLuca; Pain Relief Network; 2008-03-23. Mostly regarding news item from KAKE (ABC) TV; 2008-03-21. Source and Video Comment on and discuss this article on PRN's Patient Forums See also: Guess Who Hit a Nerve? - 2008-03-07 DeLuca on 'Feds Target Reynolds' AP story This is deeply disturbing. ... http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/govt-harrasses-patients/330/ Pain Patients Excluded from Hearings on Prescription Drug Abuse; Siobhan Reynolds; President, Pain Relief Network; Submitted testimony to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs, “Gen Rx: Abuse of Prescription and OTC Drugs“; 2008-03-08. (PDF version) See also: Why Untreated Chronic Pain is a Medical Emergency Testimony of DeLuca, M.D., PRN, to ... http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/pain-excluded-hearings/326/ Why Untreated Chronic Pain is a Medical Emergency; Alexander DeLuca, M.D., MPH; Senior Consultant, Pain Relief Network; 2008-02-28. Submitted testimony to the Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs, "Gen Rx: Abuse of Prescription and OTC Drugs"; 2008-03-08. (PDF version) See also: Pain Patients Excluded from Prescription Drug Abuse Hearings Testimony of Siobhan Reynolds, ... http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/pain-med-emer/325/ Guess Who Hit a Nerve?; Alexander DeLuca, Senior Consultant, Pain Relief Network; War on Doctors/Pain Crisis blog; 2008-03-07. Source. This essay is part of the Pain Forum Discussion of: Feds Target Pain Patients Group's President - Hegeman, AP, 2008-03-07 See PRN's 'Hot off the Presses' forum Well, I guess we've hit a nerve, huh? I ... http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/prn-hits-fed-nerve/323/ Feds Target Pain Patient Group's President; Roxana Hegeman, Associated Press, Wichita Eagle; 2008-03-07. Source. [Discuss this article on PRN's Patient Forums] See also: PRN Raises Ante in Suit over Kan. Doc's case - AP; 2008-02-28 PRN vs. Kansas & DOJ - Complete Lawsuit (ZIP) - PRN; 2008 WICHITA, Kan. (AP) -- Federal prosecutors claim ... http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/fed-targets-prn/322/ Voices of Abandoned Patients in Wichita Kansas; Pain Relief Network; 2008-03-06. The Pain Relief Network has a webpage at which pain patients of Dr. Schneider's can sign up so that we can stay in touch with them. As part of that contact info form, there is a space for optional comments. ... http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/voices-of-the-damned/320/ "Cops and Doctors" in the WSJ gets it Wrong - Alex DeLuca; Pain Relief Network; 2008-02-28. Refers to: Cops and Doctors; Scott Gottlieb; Wall Street Journal, pg A17; 2008-02-27. Source. [Comments/Discussion on the Chronic Pain Forums of PRN] See also: Do We Really Want e-Prescription Monitoring? - DeLuca; 2007-05-08 Distortion of Pain Medicine - DeLuca; ... http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/cops-docs-wrong/317/ Jugde Sets Emergency Hearing for Patients of Jailed Doctor; Roxana Hegeman; Associated Press; 2008-02-25. Source. [Discuss this on the Chronic Pain Forums of PRN] See also: Newsflash - PRN in Kansas (updated news archive) PRN vs. Kansas - The Complete Lawsuit (ZIP) WICHITA, Kan. - A federal judge on Monday set an emergency hearing ... http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/judge-to-hear-tro/316/ Wichita Patients Having Difficulty Finding Docs; Roxana Hegeman; Associated Press; 2008-02-21. [Discussion at: PRN - Hot off the Presses forum] See also: Newsflash - PRN in Kansas (updated news archive) PRN vs. Kansas - The Complete Lawsuit (ZIP) WICHITA — Patients of a Kansas doctor who is charged with illegally prescribing painkillers say medical ... http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/patients-cant-find-docs/315/ And the Beat Goes On, and On; Alex DeLuca; War on Doctors/Pain Crisis blog of the Pain Relief Network; 2008-02-20. [Discuss this article on the Chronic Pain Forums of PRN] Just to remind us that all is very not well for pain doctors and pain patients in America, despite recent progress in ... http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/beat-goes-on/314/ Pain Relief Network Tries to Reopen Schneider Clinic; Associated Press; WIBW TV; 2008-02-19. Source. [Discussion on PRN: Hot off the Presses forum] See also: Newsflash - PRN in Kansas (updated news archive) PRN vs. Kansas - The Complete Lawsuit (ZIP) (Includes: video of TV news coverage of the Press Conference) (arrgh - no longer available) Patients of ... http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/prn-tries-reopen-schneider/313/ [Comment on/Discuss this document on the Chronic Pain Forums of PRN] UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT - 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 ... http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/prn-v-kansas-et-al/312/ Jailed Doc's Patients to Sue Government.; Roxana Hegeman; Associated Press; 2008-02-11. Source. [Discuss this article on the Chronic Pain Forums!] See also: Newsflash - PRN in Kansas (updated news archive) WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Patients of a physician who is charged with running a "pill mill" linked to 56 overdose deaths plan to sue ... http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/schneider-patients-sue/310/ Dr. Rosa Martinez Case Has Another Day in Court - Leah Beth Ward; Yakima Herald-Republic; 2007-12-30. Source. [Discuss the Martinez case on the Chronic Pain Forums] See also: USA v Dr. Martinez goes to Jury - Martinez Wins Drug Charges - DeLuca; 2007 and, Medical Guidelines are not Prosecutorial Tools - DeLuca; 2007 Yakima physician Dr. ... http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/martinez-another-court/309/ Chronic Pain Can Damage Brain - redOrbit Staff; 2008-02-06. Source. [Discuss this Article on the Chronic Pain Forums!] See also: A Modern Understanding of the Etiology of Chronic Pain - DeLuca; 2007 and, Chronic Back Pain May Shrink the Brain - WebMD; 2004 People who suffer chronic pain have constant brain activity in areas of the ... http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/index.php/archive/pain-damages-brain/308/