JACOB SULLUM: Chilling Her Softly: The secret silencing of a pain treatment activist. “Schneider, who founded the Pain Relief Network (PRN) in 2003 to highlight the chilling effect of drug law enforcement on the practice of medicine, evidently has a talent for getting under the skin of people in power. But that is not a crime. By treating it as such, [Assistant U.S. Attorney Tanya] Treadway has used grand jury secrecy to cloak an unconstitutional vendetta.”