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"Skip Baker demonstrates the amount of weight he lost because of
severe, untreated chronic pain. He went without eating for 14 months, while the State of
Virginia was deciding if he would be an "authorized pain patient," and get an
increase in his pain medication. He averaged a one inch loss around the middle per month,
for a total of 14 inches for the 14 months! This is like torture for a State to do this to
a Pain Patient, who they knew all along, has Ankylosing Spondylitis," a VERY painful
spinal disease. "The decision to make him an 'authorized' pain patient could have been made in one hour by a good pain specialist, if this system wasn't in place in Virginia. Skip Baker is President of ASAP and he would like you to join him in the campaign for sensible pain treatment. You can contact him at: skipb@widomaker.com or see our President's Page. |
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Documents and ResourcesWho We Are - And how you can help
To Get Help for Pain go to:
To subscribe to the Action-on-pain list send a blank email to: mailto:Actiononpain-subscribe@yahoogroups.com or go to: http://www.onelist.com/subscribe/Actiononpain/ To unsubscribe, just send a blank email to: Actiononpain-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com Doonesbury on Pain Treatment -- The Doonesbury comic strip from Sunday, July 26, 1998 Understanding The IssuesIn order to understand how we got to the present problems with pain management in the US, it is necessary to understand basic facts about heroin, the opiates, and the history of our laws and policies regarding these drugs. The best overall view of this issue, in our opinion, comes from the first section of the Consumers Union Report on Licit and Illicit Drugs. We recommend the following chapters as basic to the understanding of how we got to the current problems with pain patients.
Deadly Morals, By Katherine Eban Finkelstein - The DEA is busting doctors for prescribing drugs and patients are dying in pain. The Police State of Medicine by Dr. William Hurwitz -- Dr. Hurwitz is the doctor who was featured on 60 Minutes because he was persecuted for treating patients with severe chronic pain. He is one of the heroes of our time. Caught in Pain's Vicious Cycle, an interview with Dr. William Hurwitz Medical Society of Virginia's Guidelines for the Use of Opioids in the Management of Chronic Non-Cancer Pain. Senate Bill 402 - California, 1997 - Pain Patient's Bill of Rights
Frequently Asked Questions About the Opioids - by Mike Hamilton Fact Sheet on Chronic Non-Malignant Pain by Marcia E. Bedard, Ph.D. Opioid Pain Killers Available in the US CHRONIC USE OF OPIOIDS AND ANTIPSYCHOTIC DRUGS: SIDE EFFECTS, EFFECTS ON ENDOGENOUS OPIOIDS, AND TOXICITY - Annals New York Academy of Sciences pp151-172METHADONE AND OPIATE DRUGS: PSYCHOTROPIC EFFECT AND SELF-MEDICATION - Annals New York Academy of Sciences, 1982. V.398 pp 44-53 Pain Management Resources Pain Management Policy - California Board of Registered Nurses Prescribing Controlled Substances for Pain - A Statement by the Medical Board of California Summit on Effective Pain Management: Removing Impediments to Appropriate Prescribing - Summit Report - State of California - 1994 The Tragedy of Needless Pain by Ronald Melzack -- Scientific American February 1990 Volume 262 Number 2 -- Contrary to popular belief, the author says, morphine taken solely to control pain is not addictive. Yet patients worldwide continue to be undertreated and to suffer unnecessary agony The Painful Dilemma -- The Use of Narcotics for the Treatment of Chronic Pain, A report prepared by the Sacramento-El Dorado Medical Society ad hoc committee on the treatment of pain, 1990 Anatomy of a pain summit from November, 1994 - Sacramento, Medicine By Harvey L. Rose, MD State of Florida Medical Guidelines on Pain Management Using Dangerous Drugs and Controlled Substances, 1996 Medical References on Pain and Pain Medication - Part 1 |
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