 
12/29/03
Washington Post article on AAPS, war on pain
doctors
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please read and
circulate this story “Worried Pain Doctors Decry Prosecutions” in the Washington
Post today. Reporters such as Mark Kaufman, Ralph Vatabedian of the Los Angeles Times, and Bill McKelway of the Richmond Times-Dispatch are finally telling the other side of this story – the devastation wreaked on patients, their families, doctors – instead of just law enforcement’s spin.
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Worried Pain Doctors Decry Prosecutions By Marc
Kaufman Jeri Hassman, one of
Tucson's busiest pain doctors and a specialist in rehabilitation, was getting
ready to inject a patient with a pain-killing treatment one day in March when
federal officials burst into her Calmwood clinic, took off her jewelry, put her
in handcuffs and led her to jail. Months earlier, Drug
Enforcement Administration agents had placed the doctor and some of her patients
under surveillance and had sent in undercover patients complaining of
pain…. [Read the rest of the story] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37015-2003Dec28.html High-Dosage
Opioids Saved His Life, Patient Says Monday, By Mark Kaufman Jay
Steffler spent more than eight years in pain and in bed after a hospital
accident that left him with a rare ailment called reflex sympathetic dystrophy.
With many of his nerve endings constantly firing, Steffler, a
In
1999, Steffler took what he considered to be the desperate step of contacting
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