Pain Relief Network Sues State of WA    See also: PRN Files
State Tort Claim vs. WA State; L. Cooper Summary of the
Complaint, submitted to the Defendents: 2008/07/08.  Complaint
for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief, Damages a class action
lawsuit by Laura Cooper (lead attorney) et al., Filed:
2008-06-24  Exhibit 1: The WA state Opioid Dosing “Guidelines”
by Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG); Mar. 2007; Filed
2008-06-24  Exhibit 2: Findings of Fact Laura Cooper, Esq.;
Filed 2008-06-24  The nonprofit Pain Relief Network says the
guidelines for prescribing narcotics, written by the Washington
state Department of Health and published in March 2007, have
influenced pain treatment across the country and have made
doctors afraid to give opiate prescriptions.  Siobhan Reynolds,
president of the Pain Relief Network, says the group decided to
target Washington because the state has been a leader both in
pain treatment and in restricting doctors’ prescriptions of pain
relief medication.  The guidelines, which appl