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Mar '19

The Lethal Group Think of Mass and Social Media ADDICTION TREATMENT, CULTURE, DOXA, EVIDENCE-BASED TREATMENT, HEALTHCARE, MEDIA, MEDICAL MODEL, OPIOID CRISIS, TOBACCO, VAPING

The Lethal Group Think of Mass and Social Media by Clark Miller March 23 , 2019 Grossly incompetent media reporting on research related to public health crises continues to expose vulnerable Americans to potentially lethal misinformation. Despite mounting mortality, public health, and social costs, there... Read More
20
Mar '19

“A Seminal Study” Opioid Crisis as Symptom: Of Media, Medical, and Research Pathological Incompetence Driving Lethal Public Health Epidemics ADDICTION TREATMENT, DOXA, EVIDENCE-BASED TREATMENT, MEDIA, OPIOID CRISIS, SCIENCE, TOBACCO, VAPING

"A Seminal Study" Opioid Crisis as Symptom: Of Media, Medical, and Research Pathological Incompetence Driving Lethal Public Health Epidemics by Clark Miller March 20 , 2019 Grossly incompetent media reporting on research related to public health crises continues to expose vulnerable Americans to potentially lethal... Read More
13
Mar '19

Upcoming Post – Fact Check No-Brainer: The Lethal False Advertising Fueling America’s Substance Use Epidemics ADDICTION TREATMENT, CHRONIC PAIN, CULTURE, DISEASE MODEL, DOXA, EVIDENCE-BASED TREATMENT, MEDIA, MEDICAL MODEL, OPIOID CRISIS, PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS, SCIENCE

Upcoming Post - Fact Check No-Brainer: The Lethal False Advertising Fueling America’s Substance Use Epidemics by Clark Miller May , 2019      Protecting the brand of addiction as a medical condition and its payoffs required that the story change from a genetic cause –... Read More
13
Mar '19

UPDATE: More Evidence that Buprenorphine and Methadone Opioid Substitution Treatment (OST) is Worsening America’s Lethal Epidemics ADDICTION TREATMENT, DOXA, EVIDENCE-BASED TREATMENT, MEDICAL MODEL, OPIOID CRISIS, PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS, Suboxone

UPDATE – More Evidence that Buprenorphine and Methadone Opioid Substitution Treatment (OST) is Worsening America’s Lethal Epidemics by Clark Miller March 13, 2019 The numbers, as they say, are staggering. Opioid-related and other drug overdose deaths increasing steadily, now sharply, over decades, 70,000 last year.... Read More
07
Mar '19

Game Over for Bad Medicine ADDICTION TREATMENT, CHRONIC PAIN, CULTURE, DISEASE MODEL, EVIDENCE-BASED TREATMENT, HARM REDUCTION, HEALTHCARE, MEDIA, MEDICAL MODEL, OPIOID CRISIS, PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS, Suboxone, VAPING

Game Over for Bad Medicine by Clark Miller March 7, 2019 Predictably, biomedical interventions for non-medical problems deliver at best no benefit, more likely harm.  Just as psychotherapy for malignant tumors would. Or, equally absurd and criminal, as addictive chemicals for common (psychogenic) chronic pain... Read More
03
Mar '19

Upcoming Post – UPDATE Opioid Crisis: More Evidence that Buprenorphine and Methadone Opioid Substitution Treatment (OST) is Worsening America’s Lethal Epidemics – Columbus, Ohio ADDICTION TREATMENT, DISEASE MODEL, DOXA, HARM REDUCTION, OPIOID CRISIS, PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS, Suboxone

Upcoming Post - UPDATE Opioid Crisis: More Evidence that Buprenorphine and Methadone Opioid Substitution Treatment (OST) is Worsening America’s Lethal Epidemics – Columbus, Ohio by Clark Miller March 27, 2019 Discussed in a recent post, one of multiple lines of evidence consistently invalidating benefit from... Read More
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Feb '19

Medical Treatments for Non-medical Conditions Cause Harm – Part 1 ADDICTION TREATMENT, CHRONIC PAIN, DISEASE MODEL, DOXA, MEDICAL MODEL, OPIOID CRISIS, PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS, SCIENCE, SUBSTANCE USE, UPCOMING POSTS

Medical Treatments for Non-medical Conditions Cause Harm – Part 1 by Clark Miller February 27, 2019 As with the predictable and avoidable costs, including lethal epidemic, of the opioid crisis generated by inappropriately prescribed opioid pain medications for an entirely non-medical condition – similarly the... Read More
16
Feb '19

Upcoming Post – UPDATE Opioid Crisis: More Evidence Pointing to Overdose-Reversing Naloxone Not Substitute Opioids Reducing OD Deaths, Rowan County, NC ADDICTION TREATMENT, HARM REDUCTION, HEALTHCARE, OPIOID CRISIS, PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS, Suboxone

Upcoming Post - UPDATE Opioid Crisis: More Evidence Pointing to Overdose-Reversing Naloxone Not Substitute Opioids Reducing OD Deaths, Rowan County, NC by Clark Miller May , 2019 As public health resources are increasingly diverted to a medical “fix” for a worsening, lethal opioid crisis, evidence... Read More