Harm Reduction

It is not one world, culturally or economically. For many in the developing world, indoor air pollution comes from the open fires and solid fuels they use to cook.

Reprinted with permission of the author and the Cato Institute. Dr.

Hospitals no longer have those open wards of the ’40s and ’50s, but the idea of keeping similar types of patients together persists. A new study asks an age-old question, does location matter? Spoiler alert – yes.

It began with the Daily Mail in the UK reporting on a lead from Instagram of a Florida teen whose lung collapsed from vaping. What a great story in this media environment, if only it were true.

In the Beginning.

Stop and frisk, was a controversial police program in New York where “suspicious” individuals were stopped without any other probable cause and questioned by police.

Like the ripples made by a rock thrown into a pond, the evils of opioid’s especially those “handed out” by physicians perturbs the pond of common sense medical care.

60% of America’s annual deaths, 1.7 million deaths are due to medical error! Do I have your attention? Those numbers are based on a study [1] of course and are not so much blown out of proportion as just wrong.

One of the takeaway lessons from the opioid epidemic was that physician’s prescribing behavior often lags behind recommendations.

Pop quiz! What is the cause of our opioid epidemic? A. Doctors prescribe too many opioids. B. The government insisted doctors control pain better C. Big Pharma created addictive drugs and lied to us