• 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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• 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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• PRN in World of Pain - Videos
  This is an addendum to my recent post: PRN on Video, which provided links to the three PRN related videos in the ‘See also’ section, above.<br /><br /> To these: <br /><br /> - Siobhan, Ronan, Dr. Cole and Dr. Siegle on Fox <br /> - AP interview with veteran James Fernandez <br /> - The Chilling Effect - documentary by S. Reynolds <br /><br /> I add this short video of Siobhan Reynolds speaking about her husband, Sean Greenwood, co-founder of the Pain Relief Network, and chronic pain patient who died, in agony, earlier this year. This clip is part of the Associated Press media package, ‘World of Pain.’
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• USA v Dr. Martinez goes to Jury - Not Guilty on Drug Charges
  Excerpt: By targeting banal and ordinary medical practice, the Federal government gets the maximal chilling effect bang for their buck. The message of this case to physicians nationwide couldn’t be clearer - no physician prescribing opioid analgesic therapy for chronic pain is safe, even if you are obviously not a “pill mill,” obviously are a professional M.D., and are not even a “high dose prescriber” chronic pain doctor.
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• Peace Corps Online | William E. Hurwitz, M.D., J.D. - 1973-1975 Medical Director, U.S. Peace Corps, Brazil
  Peace Corps Online | William E. Hurwitz, M.D., J.D. - 1973-1975 Medical Director, U.S. Peace Corps, Brazil
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