The Oregon Trials
Measure 110 was a classic example of a syndrome that’s plagued innovative social programs since the 1960’s and 70’s.
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Author: C. Scott McMillin
Presidential Pill Mill?
I know something about how healthcare professionals are trained to manage medications, and this isn’t it.
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Odds & Ends
…they may have purchased what they believe to be cocaine, or methamphetamine, or heroin, any or all of which may have been ‘cut’ with fentanyl or another uber-potent synthetic opioid, in sufficient quantity to overcome their tolerance and put them in imminent danger of death.
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Why It’s Hard to Quit Smoking
Understandably, there’s a real incentive for science or business to come up with an easier, softer alternative to actually giving up smoking, as opposed to the universally accepted method of well, simply stopping.
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Back in Court — Pill Mill edition
A lone physician was found to have prescribed more than 500,000 doses of prescription opioids to assorted patients in little more than two years of medical practice.
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