opioid-epidemic Archive
In my last blog, I implored our public officials to not just talk the talk, but to really walk the walk. But doctors, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and other medical professionals must not take a back seat; and in …
President Trump stated in his Afghanistan speech of August 24, 2017 that, “We are not nation building again … But to prosecute this war, we will learn from history”. Fortunately, our news media decided not to publish fake statements without …
Angela Delyani, community health worker; Mariah Cahill, crisis services advocate; and Sgt. Matthew Larochelle knock on the door of a family with children who witnessed a domestic violence incident just days before. ______________________________ An often-overlooked aspect of the opioid …
VIII – Concluding Considerations: North Country Forums: Answers to the questions I’ve posed above will come from the bottom-up, from friends and family and neighbors, not from government bureaucrats or politicians or treatment providers stuck with commonplace solutions that don’t …
VII — The North Country: “Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt.”- Mark Twain, apocryphal “It’s the longest river in America, making its way throughout the entire country. Let’s hope that its North Country traverse will be short and easily crossed.” – Jack …
V – “Best Practice” Treatments – or Are They?: Working class white Americans are now finding themselves caught up in adverse circumstances comparable to those in which working class black Americans, indeed all poor Americans, regardless of ethnic heritage, have …
III – Causes, Consequences, Questionable Remedies: Contrary to everything I was ever taught about drug addiction twenty-five years ago, the opioid analgesics, led by OxyContin, are now the gateway drugs to all other addictive drugs, particularly heroin.
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful And murder respectable, and to give the appearance of solidity To pure wind.” – George Orwell I — Introduction: This is a “how-to”, or primer, for persons addicted to opioids or persons …
