Workers’ Compensation
Ca. Workers' Comp. Quarterly 2015, Vol. 28, No. 3
Content
- Farewell, Mailed Initial Panel Qme Requests— Hello, New Online Immediate Process!
- Through the Looking Glass: the Epidemic of Therapeutic Opioids in Workers' Compensation
- Blaming the Employer Could Negatively Impact Your Client's Recovery from a Third-Party Tortfeasor
- Eight Quick Tips for Applicants and Defendants to Improve Their Mediations
- Blaming the Employer Could Negatively Impact Your Client's Recovery from a Third-Party Tortfeasor
- Workers' Compensation Section 2014-2015 Executive Committee Roster
- Farewell, Mailed Initial Panel Qme Requests— Hello, New Online Immediate Process!
- Eight Quick Tips for Applicants and Defendants to Improve Their Mediations
- Through the Looking Glass: the Epidemic of Therapeutic Opioids in Workers' Compensation
- Workers' Compensation Section 2014-2015 Executive Committee Roster
Through the Looking Glass: the Epidemic of Therapeutic Opioids in Workers’ Compensation
KENT H. BALL, ESQ. Oakland, California
One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don’t do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she’s ten feet tall
âfrom "White Rabbit" by Grace Slick; Jefferson Airplane, Surrealistic Pillow, RCA Victor 1967
Drug abuse has been epidemic for years; no, decades. Remember Nancy Reagan’s naive and shallow national campaign, "Just Say No"? "Get High on Life, not Drugs." "Don’t Do Pot, Your Brain Will Rot." "Hugs, Not Drugs." Catchy, aren’t they?