It is only going to get worse —the ASAM announced the Mental Health Parity Proposed Rule for Medicaid and CHIP
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services which is pushing for payment for up to 90 days of inpatient treatment for substance abuse per year–this is all part of the ASAM push to move the “PHP-blueprint” to the rest of the population–a “feel-good” fallacy that is not in alignment with evidence base but in accordance with what the drug and alcohol testing, assessment and treatment industry is trying to sell. The fallacy is that 90 days of inpatient treatment and indoctrination into 12-step saves lives.
– Drug policy: we probably need an “irrational authority”.
Read as:
– Drug policy: we definitely need an “irrational authority”.
II. Societies like the American Society of Addiction Medicine and American Psychiatric Association have been self-proclaimed as “rational authorities”: a euphemism created probably by complex defense mechanisms of self-preservation in a society used to suppress dissenters and reward the wrongdoers.
“The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
― George Orwell, 1984
III. We probably need more “irrational authorities”.
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I would love to see more human treatment of people and law enforcement to be educated on more than roughing up the weak and the mentally ill.
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It is only going to get worse —the ASAM announced the Mental Health Parity Proposed Rule for Medicaid and CHIP
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services which is pushing for payment for up to 90 days of inpatient treatment for substance abuse per year–this is all part of the ASAM push to move the “PHP-blueprint” to the rest of the population–a “feel-good” fallacy that is not in alignment with evidence base but in accordance with what the drug and alcohol testing, assessment and treatment industry is trying to sell. The fallacy is that 90 days of inpatient treatment and indoctrination into 12-step saves lives.
http://cms.gov/Newsroom/MediaReleaseDatabase/Press-releases/2015-Press-releases-items/2015-04-06.html
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Good Lord. What a sick society and it is not the patient who is sick but people who govern and sell services that enrich private businesmen.
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I. The original title of the response:
– Drug policy: we probably need an “irrational authority”.
Read as:
– Drug policy: we definitely need an “irrational authority”.
II. Societies like the American Society of Addiction Medicine and American Psychiatric Association have been self-proclaimed as “rational authorities”: a euphemism created probably by complex defense mechanisms of self-preservation in a society used to suppress dissenters and reward the wrongdoers.
“The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.”
― George Orwell, 1984
“Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.”
― George Orwell, 1984
III. We probably need more “irrational authorities”.
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