Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Should we be surprised by Dual Epidemics?


    Should we be surprised by Dual Epidemics?
44.000 Annual Deaths From Suicide And 11.500 from Heroin

1.       Controlled substance guidelines are unscientific.
2.       CDC vital statistics wrongly attribute deaths with positive results for a controlled substance as caused by a controlled substance.
3.       DSM 5 fails to identify addiction to a chemical substance as a complication of a psychiatric disorder and instead classifies  it as a disease.
4.       Methadone and buprenorphine treatments are not patient friendly.
5.       AA and NA are unscientific.
6.       Some 80 million Americans with chronic pain face burdensome restrictions to pain relief by man-made regulations.
7.     20,000 pain doctors have been delicensed and persecuted as drug dealers in the last 20 years.

References :
1. Salerian AJ, The Brain: A beautiful journey, Blurb books 2017
2.Salerian AJ., The New Tuskeegee: Persecution of PAIN doctors in America. Amazon. 2018