Evidence-Based Medicine
And The War On
Drugs
Several human errors
contribute to the flawed scientific basis of the war on drugs:
§ CDC message
that prescription pain medications cause an epidemic of heroine addiction is
inaccurate.
§ CDC message
that prescription pain medications cause an epidemic of
overdose deaths is inaccurate.
§ Annual
methadone deaths are exaggerated (any death with methadone in the body reported
as death by methadone without the necessary clinical laboratory or autopsy
evidence).
§ Disproportionately
high public attention to heroin fatalities (3 per 100,000 population- same as
motorcycle accidents-versus 12.6 per 100000 population for suicide, a valid
measure of death due to psychiatric illness).
§ The
man-made” mass Sandy Hook Delusion’ wrongly reinforces an inaccurate
association between people with mental illness and mass murder.
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