HIGH-RISK OPIOID USE MEASURED AS INJECTION-RELATED DISEASE PREDICTABLY STALLS THEN SURGES OVER COVID YEARS

HIGH-RISK OPIOID USE MEASURED AS INJECTION-RELATED DISEASE PREDICTABLY STALLS THEN SURGES OVER COVID YEARS Experts’ findings confirm predicted trends for high-risk use: initial decrease tied to reduced exposure to standard treatments, then surge as medical opioids are increasingly, unsafely dispensed by Clark Miller Published January 29, 2023 Adding to a consistently congruent body of evidence, […]
HOW AMERICA’S MEDICAL/RESEARCH COLLUSION LIES TO YOU ABOUT THE OPIOID CRISIS

HOW AMERICA’S MEDICAL/RESEARCH COLLUSION LIES TO YOU ABOUT THE OPIOID CRISIS Consistently, obviously invalidating confounding factors are hidden to spin results to unsupportable conclusions, no less lethally than the lies that generated the crisis by Clark Miller Published January 22, 2023 From the retrospective cohort study of the use of medication for opioid use disorder […]
MEDIA FAILURES ENABLE CONTINUING LETHAL MEDICAL MALPRACTICE FOR CHRONIC PAIN

DISTORTED MEDIA MESSAGING REINFORCES CONTINUING, LETHAL MEDICAL MALPRACTICE FOR CHRONIC PAIN The alternative approach required to start saving lives is unthinkable, incriminating: dismiss the longstanding lie that generated and perpetuates lethal crisis – that common chronic pain is a medical or physical condition by Clark Miller Published January 15, 2023 Here’s some news! That’s […]
NOW DECADES INTO THEIR LETHAL OPIOID CRISIS MEDICAL PROVIDERS ARE LEARNING AND THINKING ABOUT RISKS OF OPIOID MISPRESCRIBING

NOW DECADES INTO LETHAL CRISIS, MEDICAL PROVIDERS LEARNING AND THINKING ABOUT RISKS OF OPIOID MISPRESCRIBING Presenting physician at 2022 annual medical meeting warns colleagues of their continuing overprescribing, that they “shouldn’t be surprised” at mounting deaths, entertains questions on how to safely prescribe opioids – in 2022 by Clark Miller Published January 8, 2023 QUESTION: […]
IN ILLINOIS, A FLICKER OF HOPE FOR SUBSTANCE USE EPIDEMICS, EXTINGUISHED

IN ILLINOIS A FLICKER OF HOPE FOR SUBSTANCE USE EPIDEMICS, EXTINGUISHED Prevention of adverse childhood experiences (ACE) seen accurately as key to preventing problem substance use; necessary resources diverted to systems causing and worsening harm by Clark Miller Published January 1, 2023 State’s Attorneys for DuPage, Winnebago, and Rock Island counties all took part in […]
MEDICALIZATION OF CHRONIC PAIN GENERATED THE OPIOID CRISIS, NOW PERPETUATES IT

MEDICALIZATION OF CHRONIC PAIN GENERATED THE OPIOID CRISIS, NOW PERPETUATES IT Decades into the lethal crisis, against CDC guidance, patients under medical care increasingly provided opioids, other interventions that lack evidence of benefit for the non-medical condition of chronic pain by Clark Miller Published January 1, 2023 Common, “centralized”, chronic pain – the vast majority […]