The observations of a genius. Who says President Obama doesn't promote bipartisanship? His
complicity in Iran's moving toward nuclear bombs has alarmed some top
Senate Democrats enough to get them to join Republicans in opposition to
the Obama administration's potentially suicidal foreign policy. Before the current measles outbreak, ... MORE
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Showing posts with label medicine. Show all posts
Thomas Sowell: Random Thoughts On The Passing Scene
The observations of a genius. Who says President Obama doesn't promote bipartisanship? His
complicity in Iran's moving toward nuclear bombs has alarmed some top
Senate Democrats enough to get them to join Republicans in opposition to
the Obama administration's potentially suicidal foreign policy. Before the current measles outbreak, ... MOREHave Prescription Drug Abuse Regulations Gone Too Far?
by CJ Arlotta, Forbes. Policy of more pain, less drugs questioned. Many health care professionals are concerned with the growing usage
of opioids among the general public, but does this mean the answer to
the problem is tightening regulations on physicians prescribing
controlled substances? “I think what we have seen with regulations in this ... MORELimited Access To Hydrocodone Pushes Abusers To Heroin
Unintended consequences of DEA dictating health care. After the DEA ruled to make hydrocodone a schedule two drug, some health officials became concerned abusers would find more dangerous ways to feed their addiction. Now that hydrocodone isn't easily accessible, those who abused it aren't able to meet their addiction needs, ... MOREKim Bellware: Despite Medical Marijuana Having Been Legal In Illinois For Over A Year, No Patients Have Benefited
Government obstruction at its best. Medical marijuana has been legal in Illinois for more than 365 days,
but the number of patients that have actually been able to get relief
from the drug remains a big fat zero. While 600 local patients have already been approved
for a medical marijuana card, there's no place to actually buy the
stuff. And ... MORERobert W. Wood: Who Shares In Marijuana Taxes?
Will gov't tax drive pot back to the black market? Taxes on marijuana are big, and it’s easy to see why. A discussion about legalizing marijuana often segues into one about tax revenues. Marijuana for medical use is legal in 23 states and the District of Columbia. Recreational marijuana is legal in DC and in four states, Colorado, ... MOREFeds Decide Better To Live In Pain Than Risk Drug Abuse
The rescheduling of hydrocodone. Imagine being wheeled into an operating room for an eye lift. As the
anesthesia begins to flow into your vein, you see that instead of small
precision scalpels on the instrument tray next to you, your surgeon
will be using a hatchet and an ax. Panic swells as you slide
defenselessly out of consciousness… ... MOREOur Fear Of Opioids Leaves The World In Pain
by Helen Redmond. Healthcare now dictated by DEA. Ever broken a bone? Recovered from a major surgery? Do you live with chronic pain?
If so, you understand on a visceral level that access to opioids like
morphine to manage pain is critical. Opioids are necessary to perform
surgery, make recovery from traumatic injuries possible, and can grant ... MORECongress Just Says No To Funding War On Medical Pot
by Ryan Burns. People pulling politicians by the ear again. When the U.S. government loses a war it does so quietly, with an utter dearth of fanfare. True to form, in the latest spending bill to pass the U.S. House of Representatives there appears to be a tiny, inconspicuous white flag signaling the end of the Justice Department's war on medical ... MORE
Federal Court: Doctors Testify War On Pot Defies Science
by David Downs. Separating propaganda from science. Three medical experts testified in federal court in California Friday and Monday that modern science renders the war on marijuana unconstitutional. Decades of medical research show the drug is not the danger the government has made it out to be, they told a federal judge. ... MORE
Should NFL Players Be Allowed To Treat Pain With Pot?
Moralists clash with medicine. While Colorado is the first state to fully legalize marijuana, Denver Broncos players are banned from using the drug. However, as CBS News correspondent Barry Petersen reports, a former NFL player said the hits he took on the field made him, and others like him, turn to pot. "Pain is constant when you play ... MOREEbola and the CDC's Dangerous Mission Drift
by Jacob Sullum. Before Tom Frieden became director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2009, his two main nemeses were tuberculosis and smoking. Although both are commonly described as threats to "public health," they differ in ways that may help explain the CDC's stumbling, alarmingly amateurish response to Ebola in the ... MOREHenry I. Miller: Life-Saving Drugs And Deadly Delays
Curious incentives on display. The Food and Drug Administration just granted permission for “expanded access” to an experimental medicine for Ebola. It’s OK as far as it goes, but it’s an exception to the FDA’s reluctance to approve the use of life-saving products. Safety and efficacy testing of the drug, designated TKM-Ebola, has barely ... MOREWhy Illinois Medical Marijuana Patients Still Have No Meds
by Zenon Evans. Good Intentions made a big splash
last year when it opened its doors as the first medical marijuana
clinic in not just Chicago but the entire state of Illinois. The
business launched just days after Gov. Pat Quinn signed the
Compassionate Use of Medical Cannabis Pilot Program Act. One
problem:
There was no medical marijuana. ... MOREMark Strauss: How To Reduce Painkiller Overdoses
Just ask states with legalized medical marijuana. As the number of patients who receive opioid prescriptions to treat non-cancer pain has increased in the past decade, so too have the number of overdoses. A new study, however, finds that states that legalized medical marijuana between 1999 and 2010 had 25% fewer annual ... MOREMedical Marijuana Research Hits Wall of U.S. Law
by Serge F. Kovaleski. More evidence the government is not us. Nearly four years ago, Dr. Sue Sisley, a psychiatrist at the University of Arizona, sought federal approval to study marijuana’s effectiveness in treating military veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. She had no idea how difficult it would be. The proposal, which has the ... MOREJohn Stossel: Healthy Profits?
More damage to the medical profession. I'm the underachiever in my family. My parents also produced Harvard Medical School research director Thomas Stossel. Mom called him the one who had "a real job." For years, my brother annoyed me by not embracing the libertarianism that changed my life. It bored him. He was comfortable in his Harvard ... MOREWorld Health Organization Calls For Drug Decriminalization
UN argues against its own policy. JAMAICA, Uruguay, Colorado, Washington—more and more places are rebelling against the UN conventions that established the criminalisation of narcotics half a century ago. But the latest organisation to weigh in against the UN’s line is rather surprising. It is a branch of the UN itself. A report just ... MOREOnly 18 Confirmed US Flu Deaths In 2001. What?!
by Jon Rappoport. What happened to the "36,000 die from flu every year" bit. It’s always interesting when official agencies’ statistics come back to bite them. Hard. In December of 2005, the British Medical Journal (BMJ online) published a shocking report by Peter Dosh, which created tremors through the halls of the Centers for Disease ... MORE
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