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The Government’s War on Pain Patients Contrary to popular belief, doctors over-prescribing opioids did not cause our drug crisis, nor does it sustain its steady climb. According to CDC’s data, nearly half of all overdoses don’t involve prescribed opioids at all. Among the remaining drug-related deaths in 2017, half involved illicit fentanyl and heroin. OnlyContinue reading DRAFT Lawhern Home

Action Item: The AHRQ Must Withdraw Its “Comparative Outcomes Review 240”

contact the US CONGRESSPERSONS who sit on the Committee for Government Oversight and Reform, and demand they take action. On January 20, 2021, a letter with attachments was delivered by email to the Acting Director and Senior Staff of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ.)  The letter requests AHRQ to immediately withdraw itsContinue reading Action Item: The AHRQ Must Withdraw Its “Comparative Outcomes Review 240”

Congress: Clean Up This Mess!

It is past time for Congress to correct the mess they have made of the regulation of opioid pain relievers. Here is contact information for your Senators, Representatives, and Governors’ offices. Call them and demand that they: familiarize themselves with the problems they have created by reading this article in STAT news. begin work onContinue reading Congress: Clean Up This Mess!

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Point Paper on Regulatory Over-Reach 
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 Departures of Doctors from Pain Management Practice

Thousands of doctors are leaving pain management practice and deserting their patients throughout the US Whole regions of US States now lack any pain management center. Patients overcome by pain are lapsing into disability. Some are committing suicide or seeking pain relief from dangerous street drugs. The main reason for physician departure is vast regulatoryContinue reading Point Paper on Regulatory Over-Reach 
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 Departures of Doctors from Pain Management Practice

Comments to “Treatment for Acute Pain: An Evidence Map”

Here are Red’s comments on an attempt by the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to reinforce scientifically unsupported mythologies about the supposed relationships between opioid prescribing and addiction. Click the document title to view. Click the “download” button to download the PDF file.