When the DEA became my patient’s doctor
I have practiced neurology for more than fifty years. I have treated patients with refractory neuropathic pain, central pain syndromes, spinal cord injuries, and the cruel mix of conditions that fall under no clean diagnostic label. I have watched patients who were finally stable, finally sleeping, finally functioning, lose their prescriptions not because their physicians did anything wrong, but because the government decided that looking different on paper is the …
When the DEA became my patient’s doctor
