• Addiction, Pain and Public Health website
  aka doctordeluca.com - site is a rich repository of full text academic, legal, journalistic and advocacy resources focusing on the federal attacks on pain doctors and pain patients, substance abuse, controlled drinking, harm reduction and psychopharmacology.
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• Chronic Pain in Veterans
  Table of Contents: Introduction // Opiophobia and Opioignorance // Modern Understanding of Chronic Pain // Risk of Addiction in Opioid Therapy // Treatment and Outcomes // Undertreatment of Pain is a National Scourge // Footnotes
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• Dear VA - This is Pain 'Care'?
  ... A few months ago, a new group of what I call “Narco-Nazis” arrived at the VA, and forced all pain patients to sign a draconian pain contract on threat of losing all care. ...
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• Drug Law Blog
  DeLuca on the Pain Doctor Crackdown; Alex Coolman; Drug War Blog; 2007-06-02.<br /><br /> Excerpt:<br /><br /> "This week Alex DeLuca had an interesting post on the nationwide criminal crackdown on pain doctors and in particular on the effects that this crackdown is having on patients who were previously under the care of these doctors. The bizarre thing, DeLuca notes, is that people who were once steady on pain management medication are instantly being reclassified as "addicts," with no distinction being made between dependence and addiction."<br /><br /> The post by me referred to is:<br /><br /> Utah and Federal Law Enforcement Collaborate Towards a Final Solution to the Prescription Drug Abuse Plague; Alex DeLuca; War on Doctors / Pain Crisis; 2007-05-3
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• Mangino to Represent Self in Nov. 28 Hearing
  Several days ago Dr. William Mangino whose case the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.painreliefnetwork.org/">Pain Relief Network</a> has been involved with, and that the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://doctordeluca.com/wordpress/">War on Docs/Pain Crisis</a> blog has followed in depth (see links below), sent me three documents, some fifteen pages in all, handwritten in block text, which I will call Mangino Petitioner's Motion including: 1. a two page letter to Judge Motto, 2. a six page Brief in Support of Petitioner's Motion, and, 3. a nine page Supplement to the Brief in Support All three handwritten documents available, as a <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.jamesstacks.com/Mangino_1107.pdf"><b>single PDF</b></a>. The Persecution of Dr. Willia
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• 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..."
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• Pain Patients Excluded from Senate Hearings
  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 Conclusion: "It is unfortunate that Pain Relief Network was not invited to represent the patients at this hearing, and so the public will instead be treated to a kind of government fear show pushing this year’s moral panic, prescription drug abuse, that seeks merely to distract attention away from the government’s astonishingly brutal and thoughtless drug war campaigns, willfully ignoring direct harm to millions of innocent citizens, though their plight is in plain view."
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• Treatment of Pain and Substance Abuse
  When specialists and academics and researchers come together to discuss common barriers to optimal pain management, they have found opioid therapy complicated, in both the pain medicine and addiction medicine fields, by misapprehensions and myths. Portenoy and Payne identified “Four types of phenomena that exemplify the accommodations that must be made to further [the goal of dissemination of accurate and up to date information to the fields].” 2 I will consider these briefly, excerpting from “Pain Specialists and Addiction Medicine Specialists Unite to Address Critical Issues.” 3
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• Utah / Feds Boldly Move Toward Solution to Addiction
  Excerpt: So, what have we got? We have local officials running around preparing for a hypothetical law enforcement problem the policeman is hyping. Through some horrific leap of irrationality and probably criminal negligence, state and local officials have taken law enforcement’s worst case scenario - that the doctor was a drug dealer, all of his “patients” criminal addicts, all the meds all of them were ever prescribed were 100% diverted to high school students leading to generations of misery and crime for sure - and blotted out any notion that there might be a medically directed public health approach to consider. And no criminal charges [against Dr. William Stack] have even been filed yet.
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• War on Doctors / Pain Crisis
  War on Doctors / Pain Crisis - the Blog of the Pain Relief Network (PRN), an organization of pain patients, pain docs, and pain relief advocates dedicated to the abolition of the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) which imposes a defacto federal regulation of Medicine, a right constitutionally reserved to the states.
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• DEA: a Psychological Terror Group
  Siobhan Reynolds, president of the <a href="http://www.painreliefnetwork.org/">Pain Relief Network</a> comments briefly on an essay, by a law enforcement office who is a member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (<a href="http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.php">LEAP</a>), about the method and madness behind DEA's attacks on pain patients requiring controlled substances, medical marijuana patients, and on physicians who would minister to both of these government demonized groups, were it not for armed, federal intrusion into the (State licensed and regulated) doctor-patient relationship. ..alex...
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• End-of-Life Pain Management: - a Criminal Offense?; Robert Weitzel, M.D.; 2003
  End-of-Life Pain Management: - a Criminal Offense?; Robert Weitzel, M.D.; Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons Volume; 8(4); 2003.
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• American Pain Society – Pain Assessment and Treatment in the Managed Care Environment
  The American Pain Society (APS) offers this statement in an effort to improve pain management for people receiving care through managed care organizations (MCOs)* and to assist MCOs in advancing the quality of pain management services and the patient satisfaction and clinical outcomes for people receiving those services.
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• Oakmont doctor loses appeal in drug conviction
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• The American Geriatrics Society
  Persistent Pain Guidelines - AGS Guideline on the Management of Persistent Pain in Older Adults - The AGS Expert Panel on Persistent Pain
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• The Role of Controlled-Release Opioids; Frank Fisher, M.D.;
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• War on Doctors and the Pain Crisis
  Now defunct RSS feed of the Addiction, Pain and Public Health website - doctordeluca.com. This feed has been replaced by the War on Doctors/Pain Crisis blog and associated RSS feed: http://www.doctordeluca.com/wordpress/ http://www.doctordeluca.com/wordpress/feed/
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