Prosecutors Try to Gag Medical Testimony

STATS’ fellow Maia Szalavitz reports on the Huffington Post on a case where prosecutors are trying to get a gag order on an activist group for pain sufferers. It seems the testimony provided by the Pain Relief Network as to the legitimacy of prescribing opioids for chronic pain is proving difficult to deal with in [...]

New Research Shows OxyContin Epidemic to be a Myth

Trevor Butterworth
The media and the Drug Enforcement Agency created a myth of widespread accidental addiction to OxyContin a new study of almost 28,000 drug addicts attending treatment centers across the United States shows. The research, published in the November 2007 issue of the Journal of American Psychiatry also demonstrates that:
most of the OxyContin use [...]