Dr. Frieden Lives matter. Lives of people with chronic pain addiction or depression.

 June 30, 2016

 Dear Dr. Frieden

  Lives matter. Lives of people with chronic pain addiction or depression.

   What happens to a large number of opiate dependent patients left without their trusted physician due to  allegations of drug trafficking? 

     Every year some 600  US physicians have been forced out of medicine by special laws authorized by Congress under the criminalization of psychiatry and pain medicine.

    In Washington DC when a psychiatrist and two pain physicians became under investigation more than 1900 opiate dependent patients were  left without appropriate care. Within one year 14 patients committed suicide.

    The strikingly high number of suicides were consistent with previously reported high suicide rates upon discontinuation of opiates 9Kakko et al). Furthermore it resonated the special warning by Grant and colleagues in their classic study – the largest epidemiological study of  mood and anxiety disorders and substance abuse in US – : beware of suicide risk and do not interrupt treatment of stable opiate dependent patients.

 It will be a well educated guess that every year some 600 physicians and some 3600 opiate dependent patients have been adversely effected by the criminalization of psychiatry and pain medicine with approximately 2580 patients committed suicide annually.

    The US suicide epidemic with some 44,000 deaths (13 per 100.000 population in 2014 a significant jump from 10.5 per 100000 population in 2000 ) may represent a collateral damage from the war on drugs and the criminalization of psychiatry and pain medicine.

Dear Dr. Frieden

  CDC special warnings singling out prescription pain medications (opiates) as a public menace is wrong and harmful.

  Please do the right thing. Let us save some future lives.

Respectfully

Alen J Salerian MD

 References:

Is There A Common Dominator For The Rising US Epidemics Of Deaths From Suicide, Drug Overdose, Prescription Opiates And Heroin?

From 2000 to 2014

§  Suicide rates increased by 1.2 times.

§  Heroine deaths increased by 4.9 times.

§  Drug overdose deaths increased by 2.4 times.

§  Opiate Prescriptions deaths increased by 1.8 times.

A possible shared influence

§  Not effected by the economy or wars

§  Has counteracted advances in psychiatric treatment and suicide prevention.

§  Has contradicted significant progress in reducing suicide in Japan  and the European Union .

§  Has grown stronger consistent with the execution of criminal actions against psychiatrists and pain physicians .

§  Has created a hostile environment for people with chronic pain, addiction and psychiatric illness .

§  Has restricted access to adequate psychiatric and pain treatment.

   There seems to be statistically significant evidence  to suggest governmental regulations empowered by the criminalization of psychiatry and pain medicine has been the driving force behind the US epidemics of suicide, overdose and heroine deaths.

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“Are You Sure My Friend Its Not My Dots ?

 “I'm fearful my uncle

You have dots”

“My boy

 Be proud of heritage

We’re leopards “

“You scare me Papi

You big and black”

“Looks might wrong you

 Tall is great

Black-and-white

We’re not from Mars

Or Pluto”

“Sorry friend

No time to call

I miss our chats

Long and dandy”

“Are you sure my friend

It’s not my dots

Really sure

Not my bad fortunes

 Or the rumors?

I ‘m no Taliban

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DrFrieden letter #4 from KOS

June 25, 2016

Dear Dr Frieden

   Greetings from Kos a tiny island in the Aegean, the birthplace of Hippocrates.

 How fortunate have I been unlike my friends ,Dr Bill Hurwitz and Dr. Silviu Ziscovici.

   Have you heard of them? They were rendered destitute by our barbaric laws criminalizing psychiatry and pain medicine. The last five presidents of the American Academy of Pain Medicine publicly stated that Dr. Hurwitz was a gift for medicine. I believe Dr. Ziscovici is an excellent and caring doctor.

    You and the CDC  false alarm had something to do with the atrocities they suffered:  Declaring prescription opiates  a public menace responsible for the epidemics of heroine addiction and overdose deaths.

    Humans err. CDC’s brilliant statisticians unfamiliar with medical epidemics made a colossal error at the expense of   millions of Americans with chronic pain addiction and psychiatric problems.

   Science says,just the opposite of CDC warning, is correct: the governmental restrictions generated our suicide  (44,000 annual deaths) and heroin epidemics. Mathematics show a fairly strong correlation between the suicide and heroine deaths (r=0.81) when in Western Europe and Japan( the modern world without criminalization of psychiatry and pain medicine ) the suicide rates are declining for 15 years

 Dr Frieden please do the right thing, correct the errors.

Thanks

Alen J Salerian MD

Dr Frieden LETTER 3 FROM ATHENS

June 24, 2016

Dear Dr Frieden

   Fear and prejudice are everywhere including Athens. Many Athenians are fearful and avoidant of dogs.

   Gus-a kind, well behaved creature who weighs 120 pounds-received much hostile attention near Acropolis where at an ancient theater, the Greek National Symphony Orchestra was playing the magnificent ninth Symphony.

 Magic was in the air. Gus was at awe of his surroundings and mute. We were some 200 yards away from the theater. Nothing mattered. Some people made noise. We left.

   I thought of home and how many societal ills have been blamed on opiates and people with psychiatric disabilities. Of course one third of the country suffer from chronic pain, addiction and psychiatric problems. And by declaring war on opiates, doctors and people with mental illness we have now created a suicide epidemic which we are afraid to acknowledge.

    Dr Frieden, how come CDC has warned the public about the heroin but not the suicide epidemic ? The word  epidemic has never been used about our tragic losses of some 40,000 humans. The epidemics are connected. The underlying cause is our irrational and unscientific war against psychiatrists and pain doctors.