<![CDATA[The Pain Police: Hurwitz Case Shows Doctors Can Be Healers or Cops-- Not Both]]>

1.0 link 47263 <![CDATA[The Pain Police: Hurwitz Case Shows Doctors Can Be Healers or Cops-- Not Both]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maia-szalavitz/the-pain-police-hurwitz-c_b_47263.html According to a jury in Virginia, a doctor can genuinely believe he is treating pain by prescribing opioids, have no intent to sell drugs, make no money at it and otherwise behave as a compassionate healer -- and still deserve to go to prison like a street pusher a result.

That's the essence of the bizarrely mixed verdict in the trial of William Hurwitz, in which the pain doctor was convicted of 16 counts of drug trafficking. Hurwitz originally faced 50...

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