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Topic: Back Pain: Support Group >> Discussion: And In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch by carol632

And In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
by carol632, on 8/12/2004 2:57:17 PM

I quote:
Drug enforcement agency teams up with doctors on painkiller guidelines.

Washington--New guidelines seek to improve treatment for millions of Americans with unrelieved pain by spelling out exactly who to prescribe powerful painkillers such as Oxycontin and morphine without attracting the wrate of the DEA.
Many doctors hesitate to prescribe narcotics, which are heavily regulated because they can be abused by addicts.
The guidelines issued Wednesday, written by leading pain specialists together with the DEA, stress that the drugs are safe for the proper patient--and pledge that doctors wont be arrested for providiing legitimate therapy.
There is "unwarrented fear that doctors who treat pain aggressively are singled out" said Patricia Good, the DEA's drug-diversion chief. The guidelines should help eliminate this aura of fear, she said.

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