This pain scaled was devised by Dr. J.S. Hochman MD, the founder of the National Foundation for the Treatment of Pain (NFTP). It is far ...

I recently posted an article about pain contracts here , where I argued that pain contracts are coercive, one-sided and unfair. These contra...

This is the name drug dealers use for the kids who get caught in the line of fire and killed when they are shooting it out with each other....

The "Old School" has closed its doors forever. It used to be, back in the day, that even punks and bullies had a code of honor, an...

Another blog entry from my good friend Scalpel, this time attacking some woman with a migraine for claiming her pain is a 10, showing no ob...

If you've ever wondered why you were treated like a criminal, whiner or a lump of meat when you walked into your local ER complaining of...

This article was originally posted in alt.support.chronic-pain by "KC." All, Let me state the obvious: Life in chronic pain is h...

In Franz Kafka's novel, The Trial , the protagonist is a bank clerk named Joseph K who one day awakens to find himself arrested and accu...

While this site was set up to challenge the ignorant, hostile and judgemental attitudes so many in the medical profession have towards peopl...

By Old Goat Sooner or later it's going to happen, If you are fortunate enough to find pain care to begin with. Take the same dose every ...

This video on chronic pain, pseudoaddiction and the appropriate prescribing of opiate medications was produced by the Maryland Board of Phys...

In this video, "Nurse Bob" shows drug-seekers what they need to do to score drugs in the ER. I can't tell whether he's bei...

Whitecoat Rants has just posted a timely article on the use of patient blacklists in the ER on his blog under the title "The List....

In a recent post I talked about how certain online depictions of the "drug-seeker" have taken on the characteristics of an urban l...