Blogs and Perspectives
The blog, penned by Brian J. Chadwick, isupdated every week, addresses a broad range of opioid-related issues, including the intersection of opioid use and over-use and COVID-19.
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Don Stewart Interviews 100 Million Ways
Executive Director Brian J. Chadwick on
"Social Inequity and The Opioid Crisis." CLICK ON IMAGE TO VIEW
The below statement on #prescriptionpainmedicine is fairly standard on the major providers' websites. The problem is that new approaches to #painmanagement, including living with some degree of #chronicpain, albeit a more realistic approach, cannot successfully be thrust on the #20millionAmericans with #severechronicpain, many using #opioidmedications for years. Numbers 1-4 below are just not nearly as effective at severe acute or chronic pain management as is number 5. This is primarily on #CDC2018Guidelines for prescribing opioids – a big pendulum swing – clinicians, pharmacists and payors bought in. CDC should have had more foresight. And new CDC guidelines are too little too late.READ MORE
A weekly series of short articles written exclusively for 100 Million Ways by Linda Strause, PhD, who specializes in drug dependence and addiction. Linda will be joined by guest contributors.
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In Terry Gilliam’s epic fantasy (and epic box-office failure) “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” (1988), Vulcan, God of the Underworld, explains the alleged “virtues” of non-combat, long-distance warfare to the Baron, his eight-year-old compatriot, Sally Salt, and the Baron’s long-time, long-suffering friend/servant, Berthold. The dialogue appears in its entirety, thanks to IMDB’s movie quote section here:
Baron Munchausen: What's this?
Vulcan: Oh, this is our prototype. RX, uh, Intercontinental, radar-sneaky, multi-warheaded nuclear missile.Baron Munchausen: Ah! What does it do?Vulcan: Do? Kills the enemy.Baron Munchausen: All the enemy?Vulcan: Aye, all of them. All their wives, and all their children, and all their sheep, and all their cattle, and all their cats and dogs. All of them. All of them gone for good.Sally: That's horrible. READ MORE
Vulcan: Oh, this is our prototype. RX, uh, Intercontinental, radar-sneaky, multi-warheaded nuclear missile.Baron Munchausen: Ah! What does it do?Vulcan: Do? Kills the enemy.Baron Munchausen: All the enemy?Vulcan: Aye, all of them. All their wives, and all their children, and all their sheep, and all their cattle, and all their cats and dogs. All of them. All of them gone for good.Sally: That's horrible. READ MORE
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