http://www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/amnews/pick_03/prbf0707.htm#3
"The AMA will make it clear to President Bush, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson and Attorney General John Ashcroft that using federal laws to go after physicians who use opioid analgesics and other pain-reducing medications to treat patients with pain is wrong.
The AMA agreed to help state and specialty medical societies oppose harassment of doctors who appropriately prescribe pain medications. The AMA asks that state and specialty societies submit examples of physicians that Drug Enforcement Agency agents inappropriately harassed."
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