DEA Withdraws Its Support Of Guidelines on Painkillers
“The Drug Enforcement Administration has reversed its support for a set of negotiated guidelines designed to end a controversy over the arrests of hundreds of pain specialists who prescribed powerful narcotics for their patients. The agency took the document off its Web site earlier this month, less than two months after announcing it with great fanfare.”
This seems to be in response to the defense in a lawsuit introducing the guidelines as evidence. Just goes to show when dealing with pain management, there is a fine line between good medicine and criminal medicine.
