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Opioid drugs make pain tolerable, most long-term users say https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/12/20/opioid-drugs-make-pain-tolerable-most-long-term-users-say/ At the center of the nation’s opioid crisis is a simple fact: Large numbers of Americans experience serious pain, and the vast majority of those who have used strong painkillers for a long period say they work. That’s one key takeaway from a new Washington […]
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Six facts about dying young www.abqjournal.com/917739/six-facts-about-dying-young.html Over the past year, The Washington Post has explored a historic increase in premature death among white Americans, particularly middle-aged women living in small towns and rural areas. Here are the key findings from The Post’s “Unnatural Causes” series: 1. The nation’s health is deteriorating, with no end in […]
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The CDC is being influenced by corporate and political interests http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/healthcare/301432-the-cdc-is-being-being-influenced-by-corporate-and-political# Concerns about the inner workings of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have been mounting in recent months amid disclosures of cozy corporate alliances. Now a group of more than a dozen senior scientists have reportedly lodged an ethics complaint alleging […]
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Opioid Denial: My Own Harrowing Experience http://acsh.org/news/2016/12/29/opioid-denial-my-own-harrowing-experience-10655 Talk about irony. Who could have possibly known that one week after my New York Post op ed warned that our new, deeply flawed strategy to combat the opioid overdose epidemic would end up harming innocent patients, that I would become one of them? I have asthma, and […]
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