In November 2000, President Clinton signed a bill into law designating the decade beginning January 1, 2001 as the “Decade of Pain Control and Research.” While national pain organizations welcomed the new law, hopeful that significant advances would be made in research and pain management, apparently the DEA had a different take.
Four years ago, the DEA worked with Dr. Russell K. Portenoy, chairman of the pain medicine department at Beth Israel Medical Center, to develop pain medication...
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