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

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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

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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

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Feb '19

No, Methadone is Not the New Methadone ADDICTION TREATMENT, CULTURE, DISEASE MODEL, DOXA, EVIDENCE-BASED TREATMENT, HARM REDUCTION, OPIOID CRISIS, SCIENCE, Suboxone, SUBSTANCE USE

No, Methadone is not the New Methadone by Clark Miller February 13 , 2019 The false promise of medication assisted treatment = MAT (or opioid substitution therapy = OST) is increasingly exposed as a deceit by critical evaluation of diverse lines of evidence and research... Read More

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Nov '18

The Science: Following French Failure, Americans Get a Substitute Addictive Opioid as “Fix” for the Opioid Crisis, Marketed as Reducing Overdose Deaths Does It? ADDICTION TREATMENT, DISEASE MODEL, EVIDENCE-BASED TREATMENT, HARM REDUCTION, MEDIA, MEDICAL MODEL, OPIOID CRISIS, PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS, SCIENCE, Suboxone

The Science: 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 November 27, 2018 In attempts to reclaim appearance of competence, control, and authority in a worsening lethal opioid... Read More

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Sep '18

In Science: Another Medical Fix not Supported by Evidence – Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) and Medications to Stop Smoking ADDICTION TREATMENT, CHRONIC PAIN, DISEASE MODEL, EVIDENCE-BASED TREATMENT, MANAGED CARE, OPIOID CRISIS, PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS, SCIENCE, SUBSTANCE USE, TOBACCO, UPCOMING POSTS

Another Medical Fix not Supported by Evidence – Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) and Medications to Stop Tobacco Use by Clark Miller September 20, 2018 Business- and Medical-model industries controlling public healthcare funds send patients wanting to stop smoking to medical visits for prescription medications and... Read More

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Aug '18

Chronic Pain: The Research Says Find a Therapist CHRONIC PAIN, CULTURE, DOXA, EVIDENCE-BASED TREATMENT, MANAGED CARE, MEDICAL MODEL, OPIOID CRISIS, SCIENCE, UPCOMING POSTS, VOICES

Chronic Pain: The Research Says Find a Therapist by Clark Miller August 15, 2018 The best available research on effectiveness of treatments for the most common chronic pain, pain that is “centralized” (not cancer pain or due to acute inflammation or tissue damage) - like... Read More

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Aug '18

Uncontrolled Substance Use is a National Epidemic: Where Have Decades and Billions Spent on Medical Model Approaches Gotten Us? ADDICTION TREATMENT, DISEASE MODEL, EVIDENCE-BASED TREATMENT, MEDICAL MODEL, PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS, SCIENCE, SUBSTANCE USE, UPCOMING POSTS

Doxa Deconstructed: Another Medical Fix Not Supported by Evidence – Suboxone for the Opioid Crisis ADDICTION TREATMENT, DOXA, EVIDENCE-BASED TREATMENT, MEDICAL MODEL, OPIOID CRISIS, SCIENCE, UPCOMING POSTS

UPDATE: See new companion post – In a California county hard-hit by opioid abuse, reduced death rate points to OD reversal drug naloxone, not opioid substitute Suboxone

Upcoming Post in SCIENCE – “Addiction Medicine” – Oxymoron and Multibillion Dollar Black Hole for Public Funds ADDICTION TREATMENT, DISEASE MODEL, DOXA, EVIDENCE-BASED TREATMENT, MEDICAL MODEL, PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS, SCIENCE, UPCOMING POSTS

The giant industry controlling public healthcare funds, policy, and research for substance use problems is a lethal sham – using decades of public trust and hundreds of $billions to produce: no medical treatments or gains on the problem; no identified medical cause for addiction; no…