The War On Drugs And Doctors And The Collateral Damage: A Rising Suicide Epidemic and 24,000 Ruined Physicians

The War On Drugs And Doctors And The Collateral Damage: A Rising Suicide Epidemic and 24,000 Ruined Physicians

  The war on drugs and doctors is based upon flawed CDC statistics and reinforced by financial strangulation and defamation rendering physicans defenseless. This war also has been catastrophic for millions of Americans with chronic pain and mental illness unleashing  a rising  epidemic of suicides in the last 15 years. Furthermore some 24,000 good doctors have been ruined.

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