Under-treatment of Pain

A proposal to turn Afghanistan's burgeoning opium crop into morphine for the legal medicinal market is gaining more support.

The DEA last week issued a new policy statement on prescribing opioid pain medications, and we try to figure out what it means.

The DEA has issued new "proposed rules" to again allow doctors to prescribe Schedule II pain relieving drugs for up to 90 days on one prescription instead of the current 30 days.

In a case with national implications, a prominent pain physician jailed as a drug dealer has won a right to a new trial.