The best available evidence shows little support for any of it yet the alarmist calculations of denizens of impaired and disruptive doctors wreaking havoc on the exam floor have institutionalized the tinker toys of these self-appointed “experts.”
It is imperative the greater medical community be awakened to the actual nature of the ASAM FSPHP state physician health program agenda and apprehend the true significance of this spirituality based nanny statism. Unfortunately it may be too late as it is. Strange days have tracked us down.
“Spirituality can go hand-in-hand with ruthless single-mindedness when the individual is convinced his cause is just”
― Michela Wrong, In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu’s Congo
The New York City Medical Society on Alcoholism was started in the 1950s by Dr. Ruth Fox to promote AA and 12-step to doctors. This organization subsequently became the American Medical Society on Alcoholism (AMSA) and eventually the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM). Like the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence (NCADD), an organization that promotes the A.A. yet claims to have no formal ties, the ASAM is considered by many to be a front-group that purports to represent one agenda while in reality serving other interests. The ASAM can be considered both a political (prohibition, 12-step spiritual recovery) and corporate (inpatient rehabilitation facilities, drug testing industry) front group in this regard.
ASAM physicians have…
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Disrupted Physician 