• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• FlanneryHome
  Website of prosecutor-turned-defense counsel, John Flannery. Flannery has worked with the Pain Relief Network - http://www.painreliefnetwork.org/ - on several important War on Doctors cases, including: -- Dr. Ronald McIver - http://tinyurl.com/3czgfe -- Richard Paey - http://tinyurl.com/2q5d9n -- Dr. Paul Maynard - http://tinyurl.com/36e2g5 -- Dr. Nucklos - http://tinyurl.com/3xf4yn -- Dr. Merril - http://tinyurl.com/36mypl
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• The Role of Controlled-Release Opioids; Frank Fisher, M.D.;
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