HOW MEDIA FUEL WORSENING SUBSTANCE USE EPIDEMICS
HOW MEDIA FUEL WORSENING SUBSTANCE USE EPIDEMICS Instead of journalism, media engage in the necessary, valued and rewarded protection of lethal centers of power and wealth by Clark Miller Published January 30, 2019 Updated April 8, 2021; February 20, 2022 Among conspiring factors driving America’s worsening substance use epidemics, media responsibility to provide investigation, […]
ADDICTION: A COMPLEX, LIFE-THREATENING COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR WITH TREATMENT PROVIDED BY . . . . NO, SERIOUSLY
ADDICTION: A COMPLEX, LIFE-THREATENING COMPULSIVE BEHAVIOR WITH TREATMENT PROVIDED BY . . . . NO, SERIOUSLY The victims of a cronyism treatment industry – Americans trapped in increasingly lethal substance use epidemics – end up under pressure, due to lack of real treatment options, or court mandated back into an ineffective human treatment mill […]
CLEAR MAP OF A DARK WASTELAND BAD MEDICINE, LETHAL CROSSROADS AND DEAD ENDS IN AMERICA’S OPIOID CRISIS
CLEAR MAP OF A DARK WASTELAND BAD MEDICINE, LETHAL CROSSROADS AND DEAD ENDS IN AMERICA’S OPIOID CRISIS by Clark Miller Published January 16 , 2019 Updated April 7, 2021 The numbers, as they say, are staggering. Opioid-related and other drug overdose deaths increasing steadily, now sharply, over decades, 70,000 last year. Seemingly perversely, as population […]
UPDATE, OPIOID CRISIS – WORD FROM THE STREET: THE BUPE ECONOMY IS ABOUT ABUSE NOT SELF-TREATMENT
UPDATE, OPIOID CRISIS – WORD FROM THE STREET: THE BUPE ECONOMY IS ABOUT ABUSE NOT SELF-TREATMENT by Clark Miller Published January 10, 2019 Updated April 8, 2021 It would be hard to identify more nakedly and lethally discrepant accounts of reality than those of America’s opioid epidemic and costly medical treatment for it: 1) from […]
UPDATE OPIOID CRISIS – MORE EVIDENCE POINTING TO OVERDOSE-REVERSING NALOXONE, NOT SUBSTITUTE OPIOIDS, REDUCING OD DEATHS
UPDATE OPIOID CRISIS – MORE EVIDENCE POINTING TO OVERDOSE-REVERSING NALOXONE, NOT SUBSTITUTE OPIOIDS, REDUCING OD DEATHS by Clark Miller Published January 2, 2019 Updated April 9, 2021 As public health resources are increasingly diverted to a medical “fix” for a worsening, lethal opioid crisis, evidence continues to mount pointing away from beneficial effects attributable to […]