Whose Health is it, Anyway?
We are an arrogant bunch! As Americans, we have always believed in our rights to a better life. We even fought a war to disengage from our former government and then proceeded to demand that we have a government of the people, by the people and for the people. We are the masters of our fate, we say. And yet, there is one area in particular, where we have “abandoned the throne”. We give over our power to the medical doctor and insist that they “make us well”. Well, whose healt
Is There A Safer Strategy than Opioids For Pain Management?
Here are some facts: Overdose deaths involving Prescription Opioids have Quadrupled Since 1999, and so have sales of these Prescription Drugs From 1999 to 2014, more than 165,000 people --- 3x the U.S. military deaths during the twenty years of the Vietnam War -- have died in the U.S. from overdoses related to prescription opioids. The most commonly overdosed opioids are Methadone, Oxycodone (such as OxyContin®), and Hydrocodone (such as Vicodin®). Regrettably, overdose death
