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Contact: Kathryn Serkes (Association of American Physicians & Surgeons)
202 333 3855
kaserkes@att.net
www.AAPSonline.org
DATE: Monday, April 19, 2004
TIME: 11:00am - 4:00pm
PLACE: US Capitol Reflecting Pool Area (Below the west front of the US Capitol) Washington, DC
EVENT: NATIONAL PAIN PATIENTS & DOCTORS RALLY & DELIVERY OF 100,000 PETITIONS TO CONGRESS
Throughout the United States, physicians are being threatened, impoverished, delicensed, and imprisoned for prescribing in good faith with the intention of relieving pain. The "War on Drugs'' has come to mean a war on lawful drugs also-and against the doctors who prescribe them and the patients who take them.
Prosecutors make careers out of high-publicity cases involving the hot "drug du jour" such as OxyContin. But this war is causing enormous collateral damage and deaths from "friendly fire." Physicians have been drummed out of practice, sent to jail, and even been driven to suicide in the face of these 21st century witch hunts.
If this continues, not one doctor will be willing to prescribe the drugs that patients so desperately need. Congress will be urged to hold hearings to investigate ways to protect physicians against unwarranted prosecution, to protect patients' access to medications, and to encourage physicians to make chronic pain management available in their practices.
MONDAY, APRIL 19th
11:00am - 4:00pm National Pain Rally
US Capitol Reflecting Pool Area
National Mall Washington, DC
TUESDAY, APRIL 20th
8:30am - 5:00pm Meetings with Members of Congress
Confirmed list of Congressional Observers (as of 4/15/04)
Office of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
For more information visit: the American Pain Institute
Great News! The Mississippi
Delegation for the MARCH ON
Senator Trent Lott (R-MS) - Tuesday,
April 20th, Russell Senate Office Bldg.
Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS) -
Tuesday, April 20th, Dirksen Senate Office Bldg.
Congressman Roger Wicker (R-MS) -
Tuesday, April 20th, Rayburn House Office Bldg.
Congressman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) -
Tuesday, April 20th, Cannon House Office Bldg.
Congressman Chip Pickering (R-MS) -
Tueadsy, April 20th, Rayburn House Office Bldg.
Please get your appointment together
with your state Congressional delagation on Tuesday, April 20th when you come to
KEEP THOSE PETITIONS COMING
IN!
Estimated number of
PETITIONS:
On-line PETITIONS
-
685
Estimated Hand Signed PETITIONS -
10,000 (Lots more
PETITIONS being signed. It looks like we will have over 100,000 PETITIONS in
time for the MARCH ON
DAYS TO GO
BEFORE THE MARCH ON
DAYS TO GO BEFORE
THE NATIONAL FOCUS ON BLACK PAIN ISSUES
JUNETEENTH
FREDERICK DOUGLASS FREEDOM MARCH!
Saturday,
the "19th of
June", 2004,
9:30AM
STARTING: FREDERICK
DOUGLASS HOME
320 "A"
Street, N.E.
ENDING: White
House Ellipse at the
3rd Annual
National Juneteenth Black Holocaust
"Maafa" Memorial
Service
PAIN MARCH
UPDATE (April 7, 2004)
NATIONAL
PAIN RALLY
Monday,
April 19, 2004
11:00am -
4:00pm
(Below the west
front of the
Confirmed
list of Congressional Observers (as of
4/7/04)
Office of
Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
House Democratic Leader
ATTENDING AS
OBSERVERS TO THE MARCH:
Policy Staff
for Congresswoman Pelosi
Confirmed
Speakers (as of 4/7/04):
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes-Norton
(D-District of Columbia)
Virginia
Brooks, President
Terina
Threadgill, Vice-President
National
Pain Patients Coalition
Katheryn
Serkes
Association
of American Physicians & Surgeons (AAPS)
Barbara
Heiser, R.N., Executive
Director
National
Chronic Pain
Patient
Rev. Ronald
V. Myers, Sr., M.D., President
Baptist
Medical Missionary & Family Practice
American
Pain Institute
National
Juneteenth Observance Foundation (NJOF)
Frank
McCune, M.D., M.B.A., Chairman
General
Surgeon
National
Juneteenth Medical Commission
American
Pain Institute
Robert Kale,
M.D.
Anethesiologist & Pain
Management Specialist
American
Pain Institute
Rev.,
Atty. Jesse Brown, Legal
Counsel
American
Pain Institute
National
Juneteenth Christian Leadership Council (NJCLC)
Terry
Brackman, D.O., RPh., ACOFP
Family
Practice & Pain Management
American
Pain Institute
Mike Gutman,
M.D.
Pain
Management
Michael
Jackson, M.D., AAPM
Pain
Management Specialist
Other speakers will be added as they
are confirmed. Please keep those petitions coming in
(http://www.racedepot.com/api/admin/petition_form.asp)! Also, write, call and make
an appointment with your members of
Congress!
MARCH ON
Silent No
More!
April 18-20,
2004
National Mall - US
Capitol
March
Objective:
"Congressional
Hearings on the DEA War on Doctors, Pharmacists and Chronic Pain
Patients"
SUNDAY, APRIL
18th
6:30pm National Pain
Patients Coalition Leadership
Sheraton
Hotel
900 South Orme
Street
Arlington,
VA
(703)-521-1900
Discount Hotel
Reservation Code: MOW617
MONDAY, APRIL
19th
11:00am - 4:00pm
National Pain Rally
US Capitol Reflecting Pool
Area
National
Mall
Washington,
DC
TUESDAY, APRIL
20th
8:30am - 5:00pm Meetings with Members of
Congress
See you in
"DOC"
Rev. Ronald V. Myers, Sr.,
M.D.
"Don't give up
the fight!"
AMERICAN
PAIN INSTITUTE
Rev. Ronald V. Myers, Sr., M.D.,
Founder &
President
202-331-8864
662-247-1471 662-247-1384
Fax
www.AmericanPainInstitute.org
MARCH ON
Silent
No More!
April 18-20,
2004
National Mall -
"Patients
in pain no more! See you in
NATIONAL
PAIN PATIENTS COALITION
Virginia
Brooks, President Terina
Threadgill, Vice-President
662-334-6204
662-840-6309
www.PainCoalition.us