Archive for March, 2007

Lack of health insurance leaves some too poor to be sick (Carroll County Online)

Saturday 31 March 2007 @ 11:57 pm

For almost five years, doctors and nurses at the Carroll Hospital Center emergency room were John Guarnera’s primary health-care providers.

Posted in Chronic Pain

Prescription-drug deaths soar in state (Fairview Observer)

Saturday 31 March 2007 @ 11:30 pm

Prescription-drug misuse is a quickly growing, silent epidemic that claims the lives of hundreds of Tennesseans each year.

Posted in Chronic Pain

Former Doctor Charged in Drug Fraud (RedNova)

Saturday 31 March 2007 @ 3:14 pm

By Clifton Adcock, Tulsa World, Okla. Mar. 31--Patrick J. Fahey was 'a dope dealer posing as a doctor,' the attorney general says.

Posted in Oxycontin

Lawyer: Deaths not fault of doctor (Honolulu Advertiser)

Saturday 31 March 2007 @ 7:51 am

A Honolulu doctor charged this week with illegally prescribing drugs that resulted in the deaths of two men was acting within the scope of his medical practice, his lawyer said yesterday.

Posted in Pain Medication

Lawmakers hear of need for mental health parity (Tulsa World)

Saturday 31 March 2007 @ 3:30 am

U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., speaks Friday during a U.S. congressional field hearing on mental health parity at the Tulsa Jewish Community Center. Kennedy is co-author of a bill that would require equal coverage, or parity, for mental and physical illnesses.

Posted in Pain Medication

Life not such a pain (Rapid City Journal)

Saturday 31 March 2007 @ 1:58 am

Kim Morris suffered her first migraine headache when she was 11 years old. Initially, she thought she had the stomach flu with a bad headache to boot.

Posted in Pain Medication

Hunting new option in balance between painkiller’s help, and abuse (The Standard-Times)

Saturday 31 March 2007 @ 1:03 am

WASHINGTON — Scientists are hunting new ways to help millions of pain sufferers — from addiction-resistant narcotics to using brain scanners for biofeedback — amid a worrisome rise in abuse of today's top prescription painkillers.

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CDC finds dramatic rise in accidental drug-overdose deaths (The Standard-Times)

Friday 30 March 2007 @ 11:54 pm

ATLANTA — Unintentional fatal drug overdoses in the United States nearly doubled from 1999 to 2004, overtaking falls to become the nation's second-leading cause of accidental death, behind automobile crashes, the government reported.

Posted in Oxycontin

Peripheral neuropathy is unpleasant, but not fatal (The Standard-Times)

Friday 30 March 2007 @ 10:58 pm

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: Our dad was told he has peripheral neuropathy. His feet and legs burn, and he walks funny. He has lost 32 pounds. He is on lorazepam and Neurontin. He still has pain. Do people die from neuropathy?

Posted in Oxycontin

A fighter to the end (The Standard-Times)

Friday 30 March 2007 @ 4:42 pm

When Antonio Andrade was diagnosed with esophageal cancer three years ago, he began a pitched battle for his life. A construction worker by trade, he had always been a hard worker, raising two children, fixing things that needed fixing around the house,...

Posted in Pain Medication