AS AN OPIOID CRISIS MEDICAL MISINFORMATION PLAGUE RAGES FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO NEW YORK AND BETWEEN, OD DEATHS IN S.F. PREDICTABLY TREND BACK UP
America’s medical/media collusion doubles down on lethal cures with decades-long records of failure and debunked research
by Clark Miller
Published April 4, 2025
It seems that the more high-risk opioid use, overdoses, and fatal overdoses rise, the more insistently America’s top experts and media mouthpieces repeat the lies attributing benefit to the medical cures, cures increasingly dispensed over decades of an increasingly lethal crisis, not how we would expect effective treatments to work.
There are no surprises in the recent news accounts, no openings in the walls of defensively spun rationales for failure, the outright lies, and substance-free assurances of how the known benefits of the medications will soon become clear and effective with new research and if only they could be more often administered to diseased brains.
Already – within months of the massive, predicted failure of the NIH $350 million study expected to evidence some benefit to vulnerable Americans trapped in the lethal medically-generated epidemic – already buried are those failed outcomes. Buried along with the dismantling and invalidation of the lies and rationales for failure spun by experts and their useful messangers. Buried along with the exposure of their desperate, post hoc analyses revealing that results only reinforce established invalidation of addiction medication.
But not buried as deep as the absurdly obvious, dangerous question: Why was there any need for a $350 million opioid medical treatment study? Why at all, when for decades, literally decades, we have been assured by unified consensus of the full healthcare spectrum of American top experts, institutional authority, and a watchdog media, that those “miracle” cures are in fact effective? A consensus that for decades evidence has proven that they have been saving lives, curing opioid dependence.
Effective and save lives, as we were just reminded by the San Francisco Chronicle in a news piece explaining why a large trial of the proven medication buprenorphine did nothing to benefit high-risk opioid users –
“For people with opioid use disorder, including fentanyl addiction, the most effective medications are buprenorphine and methadone, each which reduce the risk of mortality by approximately 50%,” the agency said.”
Report of that predictable failure came as San Francisco also reported a return to increasing opioid use related deaths –
“This doesn’t seem like it’s working the way we had hoped”
That’s not a good look for the experts, especially with evidence establishing that any and all previous reductions in opioid overdose deaths have been entirely attributable to intensive Narcan campaigns, the naloxone distribution acting as harm reduction to mitigate established roles of bupe and methadone in fueling the lethal epidemic.
An even worse look for public health and medical experts to somehow decide to implement distribution of the common street currency for fentanyl to high-risk opioid users, as if that might be helpful?
So it makes sense, at least, the medical expert comment that, “This doesn’t seem like it’s working the way we had hoped”.
Far away, closer to America’s founding and its most esteemed centers of learning and public service, experts are no less clear in their understanding of the longstanding scientific consensus, helpfully conveyed in this news report.
“Buprenorphine is a proven, effective medication that is essential in the fight to end the opioid overdose epidemic,” state Health Commissioner Dr. James McDonald said in a statement.
That’s Dr. James McDonald of the state of New York, where use of that proven medication has increased steadily over past years, while any and all decreases in numbers of opioid overdose deaths are more than accounted for by directly observed and recorded Narcan reversals and where high-risk opioid use continues to surge, high-risk opioid use necessarily representing a failure of the increasingly dispensed proven cure buprenorphine.
Medical misinformation can be lethal.
And it’s pervasive, a plague. From New York to San Francisco and between.
A plague of lethal lies, maleficence, and deaths.
