To Qualify for Medical Pot…
As it turns out, most of the qualifying conditions weren’t well-supported by science. Then or now.
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Thieves of Hope
Their greed led them to rob these women of what they had managed to gain a bit of in the first place: hope, for a better life.
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Psychedelics on the Hype Express
All that free positive publicity has surely been a great help to the emerging psychedelic industry and the elements in the financial community who are rushing to exploit it.
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Overdose by touch?
…it happened in Florida, and the original reporting was by Fox News.
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Scamming Medicaid
The so-called sober homes turned out to be dilapidated houses in and around Phoenix, offering little or nothing in the way of services and featuring plenty of drug use– even trafficking. All paid for by Medicaid, to the tune of hundreds of millions in Federal funds.
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How Alcohol Research Gets It Wrong
…there could have been dozens if not hundreds of articles and TV features actively promoting incorrect information. Conditioning the audience against newer and more accurate findings, if they contradicted what had become popular belief.
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Ketamine and The Hype Around It
I was surprised to learn that the antidepressant effects of ketamine were completely blocked by naltrexone, an opioid antagonist. That certainly suggests ketamine is making use of the brain’s opioid systems…
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Vaping for Good Health?
Marketed as supplements, they’re excused from having to inform us. And they don’t.
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When Doctors Disinform
…what would be a physician’s motive for intentionally spreading bad information? Greed, perhaps. Maybe in hopes of boosting sales from which they ultimately expect to benefit
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Better Living Thru Chemistry
I saw our country as a nation that had no clue what drug abuse and addiction were about, yet rushed ahead to ‘fix’ it and made exactly the sort of mistakes that people make when they’re desperate for a solution to a problem they never really understood in the first place.
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One study went viral, the other did not
Bad intent is not required for an article or broadcast segment to qualify as potentially harmful misinformation. It only needs to be present in the most provocative way in the right forum.
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Boosting Ketamine
Originally developed to replace PCP as a fast-acting anesthetic, it quickly morphed into a party drug, then as another product sold in street drug markets.
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Public vs Personal
Some will represent the very best medicine has to offer, and others will be, well, not so great.
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