....That protest is being organized by Siobhan Reynolds, founder of the Pain Relief Network and a caregiver for a chronic pain sufferer. "The Government says that it wants to balance the needs of patients in pain with the need to keep addicts from abusing medication, but that's not what's being accomplished," Reynolds said. "The only people being kept from using drugs in our society are those legally entitled to use them, our sick people."

From the Pain Relief Network's website:

"The Founding Fathers wisely limited federal power, recognizing that a concentration of power at the federal level will lead to abuses. Our nations' failure to abide by this strict separation of Federal and State power in the critically sensitive area of the regulation of medicine has led to a public health catastrophe in pain care.

PRN has brought many targeted physicians together into our support network of physicians and attorneys and is sharing information with their lawyers, coordinators and interested family members. PRN is enabling targeted physicians to leverage their attorney's meager resources, providing a much more formidable resistance to Justice Department and State prosecution teams which seem to enjoy unlimited access to funds.

In essence, PRN is taking a clinical approach to the legal defense of pain care. No one has ever taken this kind of empirical approach to the problem. PRN is also building an informal but formidable network of mainstream medical institutions, pharmaceutical companies, pain organizations, civil rights groups, grass-roots patient groups, religious organizations, concerned law enforcement entities, drug policy organizations, and legal associations, eager to assist the beset doctors.