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Chronic Pain in Veterans

docalex — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:26:45 GMT

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

Dear VA - This is Pain 'Care'?

docalex — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 19:16:48 GMT

... 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. ...

PRN in World of Pain - Videos

docalex — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 04:46:35 GMT

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.

To these:

- Siobhan, Ronan, Dr. Cole and Dr. Siegle on Fox
- AP interview with veteran James Fernandez
- The Chilling Effect - documentary by S. Reynolds

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.’