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The Criminalization of Pain

The Criminalization of Pain

by Amy Cavanaugh: Amy Cavanaugh is a 53-year-old retirement plan consultant, a grandmother, and a community leader who was caregiver to a pain patient until he lost his life as a direct result of prescription pain pills, which were prescribed as part of his course of treatment for leukemia. Prior to his diagnosis, my husband was a pain patient due to a car accident. The neurologic

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The Pros and Cons of Medical Marijuana

The Pros and Cons of Medical Marijuana

by Larry Malerba, DO, DHt (Huffington Post/AOL) With eight states looking to legalize medical marijuana through legislative initiatives or ballot measures this November (Arizona, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and South Dakota)(1), I wanted to review some of the pros and cons, as I see them, of marijuana use and abuse. I’ve considered myself particularly qualified to weigh in on the subject

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Notable Quotes

"In the last century or so, science has unwittingly fallen prey to the very habit of mind it was designed to avoid. In its desire to distance itself from doctrine in order to delve dispassionately into the nature of things, science has come dangerously close to advocating a doctrinaire materialism." - from Yoga Psychology and the Transformation of Consciousness by Don Salmon & Jan Maslow

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