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Press
Release:
Pain
Coalition
Seeks
Relief
Through
Chronic
Pain
Treatment
Act
10/24/03
press release from Citizens
for Pain Relief and the National Pain Patients Coalition, Baton Rouge,
Louisiana
Citing the public health
crises created by the revocation of the medical licenses and DEA certificates
of physicians who treat chronic pain patients, Citizens For Pain Relief
and the National Pain Patients Coalition (NPPC) are advocating for the
passage of a Chronic Pain Treatment Act by the Governor and the Louisiana
Legislature.
"Thousands of Louisiana citizens
are suffering needlessly from
chronic pain because doctors
are afraid to write the medications they need from fear of losing their
livelihood," states Danny LeTard, President of Citizens For Pain Relief
and the Louisiana Director of the National Pain Patients Coalition (NPPC).
"This has resulted in loss of productivity, quality of life, and in some
cases people choosing suicide over living in intolerable pain."
"Many physicians have been
wrongly disciplined by the Louisiana State Medical Board for appropriately
treating chronic pain patients because of a DEA witch hunt of doctors who
treat chronic pain," states Rev. Ronald V. Myers, Sr., MD, President of
the American Pain Institute. "These physicians have lost their livelihood
and thousands of their patients who suffer from chronic pain have no where
to go for help."
The Louisiana Chronic Pain
Treatment Act will allow doctors who appropriately threat chronic pain
patients to be protected from disciplinary action by the state medical
board and protect the right of patients to receive proper pain management
drug therapy.
The Pain Rally & Press
Conference will take place on Tuesday, October 28, 2003, on the East Side
Steps of the State Capitol, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at noon. For
information contact Kay Hoyt at (985) 792-5151 or visit http://www.PainCoalition.us
online.
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