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Excellent article by Dr. Forest Tennant explaining and demystifying chronic opioid therapy for chronic pain.

Chronic pain patient experience of abuse and neglect from a medical system distorted by drug war law enforcement imperatives placed on physicians.

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 story from their ‘World of Pain’ package. Covers changes in medical view of opioids for cancer and non-cancer pain, the chilling effect of law enforcement on appropriate prescribing, and offers some specific DEA statistics for Arizona.

Blog post about: Aberrant Drug-Related Behaviors (ADRBs), which are commonly referred to in slang vernacular as ‘red flags.’ Excerpt: “In summary, in opioid-treated chronic pain populations, ADRBs are very common, addiction as a consequence of treatment is very uncommon, undertreatment of chronic pain is very common, and pain experts lack uniformity in interpreting the relative importance and significance of various ADRBs.”

First of a series of blog posts regarding the trial of pain doctor William Mangino. Excerpt: “The prosecution asked only one question on cross examination of defense expert Dr. Tennant. The prosecution brought forth no further expert testimony. The defense felt Tennant’s testimony was sufficiently strong and his credibility and professional stature so huge relative to the prosecution expert, and that the prosecution had failed to make it’s case. And so on 2007-07-03, the defense choose not to call it’s second defense expert (myself) and choose not to put Dr. Mangino on the stand, and rested.”

No Relief in Sight (full text) – by Jacob Sullum, Reason Online, 1997. “Torture, despair, agony, and death are the symptoms of ‘opiophobia,’ a well-documented medical syndrome fed by fear, superstition, and the war on drugs. Doctors suffer the syndrome. Patients suffer the consequences.” David Covillion finally got relief from his pain with the help of Jack Kevorkian. The pain came from neck and back injuries Covillion had suffered in April 1987, when his station wagon was broadsided by a school bus at an intersection in Hillside, New Jersey. The crash compounded damage already caused by an …