OBAMA-BIDEN SURGEON GENERAL SLIPS IN INTERVIEW, EXPOSES “CHRONIC BRAIN DISEASE” MODEL OF ADDICTION AS FICTION
U.S. SURGEON GENERAL SLIPS IN INTERVIEW, EXPOSES “CHRONIC BRAIN DISEASE” MODEL OF ADDICTION AS FICTION In unguarded moments, Obama-Biden Surgeon General Vivek Murthy described “addiction” accurately – a compulsive behavioral symptom of underlying emotional pain and distress by Clark Miller Published April 26, 2019 Updated April 5, 2021 In a TV news interview, […]
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 […]
U.S. SURGEON GENERAL ON THE OPIOID CRISIS: MEDICAL TRAINING AND PRACTICE FAILS TO PROTECT PATIENTS FROM HARM – BECAUSE BIG PHARMA MAKES US DO THINGS
U.S. SURGEON GENERAL ON THE OPIOID CRISIS: MEDICAL TRAINING AND PRACTICE FAILS TO PROTECT PATIENTS FROM HARM – BECAUSE BIG PHARMA MAKES US DO THINGS By Clark Miller Published December 14, 2018 Updated April 5, 2021 In a series of TV news interviews on the opioid crisis, past Obama Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, newly appointed as […]
OREGON MANAGED HEALTHCARE CONTROLS MEDICAID FUNDS “EVIDENCE OR NO” FOR TREATMENT EFFECTIVENESS
OREGON MANAGED HEALTHCARE CONTROLS MEDICAID FUNDS “EVIDENCE OR NO” FOR TREATMENT EFFECTIVENESS CCOs control public resources to push into clinics a behavioral health model with no research base for opioid abuse, substance use, other potentially lethal conditions By Clark Miller Published October 25, 2018 Updated April 6, 2021; October 11, 2021 While public health epidemics […]
NEW AGE REMEDIES FOR LIFE-THREATENING CONDITIONS? USING PUBLIC HEALTHCARE FUNDS?
NEW AGE REMEDIES FOR LIFE-THREATENING CONDITIONS? USING PUBLIC HEALTHCARE FUNDS? Oregon’s claim of “following science” is belied and betrayed by failed mental health and substance use systems controlling public healthcare resources by Clark Miller Published October 11, 2018 Updated April 2, 2021; December 9, 2021 In rural Oregon hard-hit by the opioid crisis, Columbia […]
LETHAL SMOKE SCREEN: MARIJUANA, TOBACCO, CHRONIC PAIN, AND THE OPIOID CRISIS
LETHAL SMOKE SCREEN: MARIJUANA, TOBACCO, CHRONIC PAIN, AND THE OPIOID CRISIS By Clark Miller Published September 13, 2018 Updated April 4, 2021 Medical model response to the national opioid crisis gets it backwards. Marijuana use, often disallowed by healthcare providers or programs for patients with chronic pain or using prescription opioids, is supported by research […]
MEDICAL INDUSTRY ENDORSES FDA VAPE HARM REDUCTION PLAN THAT LEADS TO CIGARETTE SMOKING BY KIDS AND FUELS THE DIABETES EPIDEMIC
MEDICAL INDUSTRY ENDORSES FDA VAPE HARM REDUCTION PLAN THAT LEADS TO CIGARETTE SMOKING BY KIDS AND FUELS THE DIABETES EPIDEMIC By Clark Miller Published August 23, 2018 Updated April 6, 2021 Like Suboxone for the opioid crisis, promotion of e-cigarettes to address tobacco use as “harm reduction” has been supported by establishment Medicine citing signs […]
UNCONTROLLED SUBSTANCE USE IS A NATIONAL EPIDEMIC: WHERE HAVE DECADES AND BILLIONS SPENT ON MEDICAL MODEL RESEARCH AND APPROACHES GOTTEN US?
UNCONTROLLED SUBSTANCE USE IS A NATIONAL EPIDEMIC: WHERE HAVE DECADES AND BILLIONS SPENT ON MEDICAL MODEL RESEARCH AND APPROACHES GOTTEN US? By Clark Miller Published August 2, 2018 Updated April 4, 2021 Measured by public health outcomes, trends, and related research and data, medical industry control of healthcare resources to treat compulsive substance use, or […]
THE FALSE PROMISE OF MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT (MAT) FOR THE OPIOID CRISIS
THE FALSE PROMISE OF MEDICATION-ASSISTED TREATMENT (MAT) FOR THE OPIOID CRISIS By Clark Miller Published July 27, 2018 Updated April 2, 2021 The substitute opioid buprenorphine in the forms of Subutex or Suboxone along with methadone used in Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) has been in use worldwide for more than five decades. Perhaps the most […]
DOXA DECONSTRUCTED: ANOTHER MEDICAL FIX NOT SUPPORTED BY EVIDENCE – SUBOXONE FOR THE OPIOID CRISIS
DOXA DECONSTRUCTED: ANOTHER MEDICAL FIX NOT SUPPORTED BY EVIDENCE – SUBOXONE FOR THE OPIOID CRISIS By Clark Miller Published July 27, 2018 Updated April 1, 2021 “Crisis is a necessary condition for a questioning of doxa, but is not in itself a sufficient condition for the production of a critical discourse.” – Pierre Bourdieu Outline […]
OPIOID CRISIS: CREATION OF AN AVOIDABLE AND PREDICTABLE LETHAL EPIDEMIC
OPIOID CRISIS: CREATION OF AN AVOIDABLE AND PREDICTABLE LETHAL EPIDEMIC By Clark Miller Published July 23, 2018 Updated March 31, 2021 It’s expected that another 500,000 Americans will die over the next decade related to the opioid crisis, with additional social costs and with no evidence yet of validated, effective treatments in place despite reports […]
CENSORED: IN OREGON, MANAGED HEALTHCARE BANS AN APPROVED OPIOID CONFERENCE PRESENTATION IN REACTION TO EXPOSURE OF MISUSE OF PUBLIC HEALTHCARE FUNDS
CENSORED: IN OREGON, MANAGED HEALTHCARE BANS AN APPROVED OPIOID CONFERENCE PRESENTATION IN REACTION TO EXPOSURE OF MISUSE OF PUBLIC HEALTHCARE FUNDS By Clark Miller Published July 23, 2018 Updated April 1, 2021 In rural Oregon hard-hit by the opioid crisis, the managed care insurance industry using public healthcare funds to control clinical healthcare practices rejects […]