An Open Letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee
By Richard A. Lawhern, Ph.D. This is edited from a letter sent to 25 legislative assistants of sitting members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. One…
Articles Written By: Richard A. (“Red”) Lawhern, Ph.D.
This author has written 18 articles
Figures Lie and Liars Figure - Why the Demographics of the So-Called “Prescription Opioid Crisis” Don’t Work
By Richard A. Lawhern, Ph.D. Anybody who reads a newspaper or watches evening news has heard the screaming headlines: “60,000 Drug Overdose Deaths” (or similar…
An Invitation: We Want A Few Good Men and Women to COMMIT Themselves
By Richard A. (Red) Lawhern, Ph.D. Editor's Note: The following "call-to-arms" was distributed to 25,000 people in 40+ Facebook groups last Saturday. National Pain Report…
An Open Letter to the President’s Commission on Combating Addiction and the Opioid Crisis: You Need to Hear a Tenth Voice
By Richard A. Lawhern, Ph.D. This article is edited from correspondence sent to the Office of National Drug Control Policy on June 17th, 2017. Others…
A Government In Disarray Over Opioid Therapeutic Use vs. Addiction
By Richard A. (Red) Lawhern, Ph.D. Most readers of National Pain Report will be aware of the many shouting voices of government Agencies trying to…
How Would Opioid Prescription Guidelines Read if Pain Patients Wrote Them?
By Richard A. Lawhern, Ph.D. Introduction A CDC Guideline for prescribing opioids in chronic pain was published in March 2016. It has become clear that…
The CDC Opioid Guidelines Violate Standards Of Science Research
Editor's Note: The following article was forwarded to National Pain Report by it's author, Richard "Red" Lawhern, and was first published in ACSH.org. In his words: "I…
Tracking Down the “Research” Behind the CDC’s Opioid Prescribing Guidelines
By Richard "Red" Lawhern, PhD I have tracked down some of the “research” behind the so-called CDC practice guidelines published in March 2016. And the…