From the 1/10 Show – Pain Management Clinics renamed to “Drug Management Clinics”

The majority of the media and legislature has been focused on the egregious acts from the proliferation of “pain management clinics”. The radio show made it clear that the marketing for the “legitimate” pain clinics has been ingenious and has created an opening for more drug distribution onto the streets of Florida. As of last week, over 700 clinics registered as pain clinics in our state. Few citizens have read the Florida Statute on what constitutes the definition of a pain clinic.
Florida Statute 459.005 (4) (i) – “A physician is primarily engaged in the treatment of pain by prescribing or dispensing controlled substance medications when the majority of the patients seen are prescribed or dispensed controlled substance medications for the treatment of chronic nonmalignant pain. Chronic nonmalignant pain is pain unrelated to cancer which persists beyond the usual course of the disease or the injury that is the cause of the pain or more than 90 days after surgery.”
The radio show promises continued growth of dependence and addiction from the legal distribution of narcotics from the drug mavens in our state. By sanctioning and registering two bit doctors who admittedly specialize in narcotic distribution has opened up a new chapter for the communities in Florida. Florida Statute 459.005(4)(i) clearly states the misnomer for the title of pain clinics. DRUG MANAGEMENT CLINIC is a more appropriate name.