FOLLOWING FRENCH FAILURE, AMERICANS GET A SUBSTITUTE ADDICTIVE OPIOID AS “FIX” FOR THE OPIOID CRISIS, MARKETED AS REDUCING OVERDOSE DEATHS DOES IT?

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FOLLOWING FRENCH FAILURE, AMERICANS GET A SUBSTITUTE ADDICTIVE OPIOID AS “FIX” FOR THE OPIOID CRISIS, MARKETED AS REDUCING OVERDOSE DEATHS DOES IT? by Clark Miller Published November 27, 2018 Updated April 8, 2021 In attempts to reclaim appearance of competence, control, and authority in a worsening lethal opioid crisis generated by the unsupportable medicalization of […]

THE FRENCH CONNECTION – FRANCE’S DECADES-LONG UNRESTRICTED BUPRENORPHINE (SUBSTITUTE OPIOID) CAMPAIGN, PROMOTED AS THE “FIX” FOR U.S. OPIOID CRISIS, IS FUELING WIDESPREAD PRESCRIBED OPIOID DIVERSION, TRADE AND ABUSE

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THE FRENCH CONNECTION – FRANCE’S DECADES-LONG UNRESTRICTED BUPRENORPHINE (SUBSTITUTE OPIOID) CAMPAIGN IMPLEMENTED IN THE U.S. AS MEDICAL “FIX” IS FUELING WIDESPREAD PRESCRIBED OPIOID DIVERSION,TRADE AND ABUSE   France’s failed approach predicted America’s uncontrolled, increasingly lethal opioid crisis     by Clark Miller Published November 20, 2018 Updated April 7, 2021; January 13, 2022   While […]

TEEN VAPING: MORE EVIDENCE, AGAIN, POINTING TO BOOMING E-CIGARETTE USE WORSENING, NOT PREVENTATIVE FOR, CIGARETTE SMOKING

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TEEN VAPING: MORE EVIDENCE, AGAIN, POINTING TO BOOMING E-CIGARETTE USE WORSENING, NOT PREVENTATIVE FOR, CIGARETTE SMOKING by Clark Miller Published November 14, 2018 Updated April 7, 2021 Evidence continues to accumulate pointing to increased prevalence of “vaping”, or use of e-cigarettes to inhale vaporized nicotine (the addictive chemical in cigarettes), in adults and youth as […]

MORE EVIDENCE THE YOUTH VAPING BOOM IS A PUBLIC HEALTH TIME BOMB

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MORE EVIDENCE THE YOUTH VAPING BOOM IS A PUBLIC HEALTH TIME BOMB   New evidence confirms predictable outcomes: From large U.S. survey; From youth nicotine use in Ireland; From new survey of 800K U.S. youth – vaping stalling and reversing decades of previously declining youth cigarette smoking   by Clark Miller Published November, 2018 Updated […]