We Are the Drug War: Prohibition as Success
In her final guest post for Points, Siobhan Reynolds asserts that the oft-repeated claim that the War on Drugs has failed should be reassessed from the point of view of those who profit from its outcomes. Looked at from that … Continue reading
Bound by Law? Questioning the “Lobster Trap” of the Controlled Substances Act
In her fourth in a six-post series for Points, Siobhan Reynolds reviews the policies and judicial precedents that leave doctors unwilling to prescribe opioids to patients in pain. Reynolds focuses in particular on how federal control of the medical profession …Continue reading
Abusive Treatment: Drug Prohibition and the Erosion of the Doctor/Patient Relationship
In her third guest post for Points, pain relief activist Siobhan Reynolds traces the unraveling of the doctor-(pain)patient relationship under drug prohibition. Perhaps the most disturbing consequence of opium prohibition, and the one least talked about in polite company, is the … Continue reading
Cops and Doctors: The Hidden Drug War
Siobhan Reynolds’ most recent guest post to this blog does an outstanding job of making the case that we (meaning both society writ large and the medical profession more generally) have utterly failed to address problems of chronic pain, and … Continue reading
Getting Relief in Wartime: Opioids, Pain Management, and the War on Drugs
In her second guest post for Points, pain relief activist Siobhan Reynolds looks at the ways in which drug war hysteria has warped public and political perceptions of pain management prescribing practices. On April 20, the FDA, the DEA … Continue reading
Opiate Users: Deserving and Undeserving?
In her second day as a Guest Blogger, Helen Keane of Australian National University examines how “niceness” and the lack thereof shape our understandings of heavy drug use. In the previous post I discussed the distinction between dependence and addiction. …Continue reading
Non-Addicted Drug Dependence
Guest blogging at Points continues this week with a series of pieces by Helen Keane, who teaches gender studies and sociology at the Australian National University in Canberra. Keane is the author of What’s Wrong with Addiction? (NYUP 2002), and … Continue reading
Battle of the Social Movements
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports today that the University of Wisconsin’s Pain and Policy Studies Group will no longer accept research funding from Purdue Pharma, manufacturers of Oxycontin. The research group has been under pressure since the Journal’s revelations about … Continue reading
Guest Blogging: Siobhan Reynolds
With this first in a series of posts by Siobhan Reynolds, formerly of the Pain Relief Network, Points inaugurates a guest blogging feature, showcasing voices from inside and outside of the academic and policy worlds. Reynolds founded the Pain Relief … Continue reading
Oxy is the New Meth
The New York Times gleefully reports today on the bust of Staten Island Oxycodone ring whose leaders shilled the pills out of ice cream trucks parked in the borough’s suburban neighborhoods. This is slightly different in substance but identical in … Continue reading
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