Pain therapy is treatment given to patients experiencing chronic or acute pain. Generally narcotics, opiate-based drugs, are given for immediate short term relief. According to the International Society for the Study of Pain, there are two different terms: pain and nociception. ... The term narcotic, derived from the Greek word for stupor, originally referred to a variety of substances that induced sleep (such state is narcosis). ... The term opiate refers to the alkaloids found in opium, an extract from the unripe seeds of the opium poppy (). It has also traditionally referred to natural and semi-synthetic derivatives of morphine. ...
PainRelief Network was founded in 2002 in response to the Bush Administration's crackdown on pain treating physicians.
Doctors who treated chronic or intractable pain with opioid pain medications were literally rounded up and put on trial, the government demanding that they serve decades, sometimes hundreds of years in prison.
On July 12, 2007 Siobhan Reynolds, the president and founder of PRN, herself the family member of a now deceased chronic pain patient, and John Flannery, one of the private attorneys with whom PRN had worked on several cases in the past, testified before the House Subcommittee on Crime (Read Testimony).
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