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I left the hospital on Friday evening, thoroughly fed up and still in pain. Hell, I'm STILL in pain now. All that for nothing.
What follows is a letter I wrote to Radley Balko over at The Agitator. He's been chronicling the effects the War on Drugs is having on pain patients and the DEA's out-of-control war on pain doctors. It's absolutely tragic and the recent Raich decision makes the situation even more frightening. Radley received a letter from a pain patient, which you can read here. Another reader suggested that the Raich decision is something like a order for government-sanctioned torture. Certainly something to think about.
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What follows is a letter I wrote to Radley Balko over at The Agitator. He's been chronicling the effects the War on Drugs is having on pain patients and the DEA's out-of-control war on pain doctors. It's absolutely tragic and the recent Raich decision makes the situation even more frightening. Radley received a letter from a pain patient, which you can read here. Another reader suggested that the Raich decision is something like a order for government-sanctioned torture. Certainly something to think about.
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