She led a lonely crusade for years until the medical community finally - and reluctantly - began to address the issue of chronic pain management. Siobhan Reynolds took up the cause of advocating the expansive use of pain medication to treat those in chronic agony despite virulent opposition from the government whose own "war on drugs" was causing thousands of people to needlessly suffer. The government intimidates many doctors into under-prescribing pain medication out of fear that they will be prosecuted. Reynolds was killed in a plane crash in Ohio yesterday. She was 50. She began her advocacy following the death of her husband. She believed that his death was hastened by the inexplicable rules and regulations governing the dispensing of pain medication. She defended doctors who defied the government to prescribe opiates to dying patients in order to relieve their agony. This got her in trouble with a vindictive prosector, Tanya Treadway, who carried out a grand jury investigation...(Read Full Post)