Medical Guidelines are not Prosecutorial Tools "The WHO guidelines were never intended to be used as a prosecutorial tool. The invocation of the WHO “analgesic ladder” concept of progressive pharmacological treatment of pain, in state investigations of physicians, is sometimes unfair. On the one hand the guidelines are interpreted as rules and the physician is faulted for violating in some aspect. On the other hand, state rules and regulations are often at odds with the spirit and specifics of the WHO guidelines..." in Public bookmarkswith fsmbguidelinesmedicineopioid-therapypainpain-crisispain-managementstandard-of-carewho