“The biggest problem Straight has is knowing how good it is.”–Dr. Robert Dupont, M.D., 1981 In 2012 former Nixon Drug Czar Robert Dupont, MD delivered the keynote speech at the Dr…
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Reefer Mad and Power Hungry
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In 2013, Dr. Steven Adelman of Physician Health Services (PHS)—a powerful nonprofit founded by the Massachusetts Medical Society that provides help to residents and doctors struggling with substance abuse problems—published a now-infamous article on KevinMD titled, “Against the Medicalization of Marijuana,” in which he lambasted the 63 percent of voters who supported the Massachusetts initiative petition to eliminate criminal and civil penalties for marijuana by qualifying patients with diagnosed debilitating medical conditions. Blasting the mandate for the Department of Public Health to “operationalize the so-called medicinal use of cannabis in the Commonwealth,” Adelman wrote, “the community of physicians has been scratching its collective head and wondering, ‘What in the world are we going to do about patient requests to become certified to purchase, or grow, so-called medical marijuana?’”
In his report, Adelman noted the alleged perilousness of addiction, withdrawal, and cognitive impairment…
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“My aren’t we plural lately”- Fred Flintstone
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May 3rd, 2013–Dr. Steve Adelman: The Mentality of What’s in Charge and Proof that Stupidity Often Reigns!
As the oldest medical society in the United States the Massachusetts Medical Society can count some of the greatest minds in the history of American medicine as members but this guys not one of them. My how far we have fallen. This same author has also unintelligibly and bizarrely compared the medical profession to Barbra Streisand’s face and opportunistically blamed the Boston Marathon bombing on “marijuana withdrawal.”
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ASAM Editor-in-Chief recommends organizations managing Physician Health Programs (PHPs) assume national role: Proposes groups pursue public policy change for all addiction treatment.
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The Aging Physician—Goodbye Dr. Welby!
As a specialist in geriatric medicine I have experience in taking care of a number of doctors who were referred to me for suspected memory problems. Still operating and teaching residents in his 7…
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Disrupted Physician Listed Among Top 70 Physician Blogs of 2016-2017 by HealthcareAdministrator.Org
DisruptedPhysician.com was listed among the top 70 physician blogs of 2016 -2017. The list was created by Healthcareadministrator.org after “through scrutiny and deep research” to “settle with only the best bloggers.” You can get all of the information and see the full list at “Healthcare Aministrator top-70-physician-blogs.”
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Request Medical School Administrators Question PHP Authority to Prevent Future Medical Profession Brain Drain
Physician Health Programs (PHPs) now targeting medical students–More sheep for the slaughter
The attached article entitled “Medical school drug testing is a moral and scientific failure” opposes testing medical students for drugs and alcohol but things are going to get a whole lot worse.
In the past six-months I have been contacted by an increasing number of medical students searching for help after being trapped in quagmire of their state physician health program (PHP). Each of them had either been referred to a “PHP-approved” assessment center or had already had an evaluation recommending inpatient treatment.
Some of these students were subjected to non-FDA approved laboratory developed tests including hair testing for marijuana metabolites and the alcohol biomarker EtG. These typeof tests can detect substances that were used days, weeks and even months prior to testing.
Medical students and physicians are just as likely to have experimented with illicit substances in their lifetimes as…
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Bent Science and Bad Medicine: The Medical Profession, Moral Entrepreneurship and Social Control
“Shedding even a little light on how advocates bend policy -relevant science could go a long way toward remedying these problems. Indeed, precisely because the advocates have overtaken the law in this area, heightened attention to the social costs of bending science could itself precipitate significant change.”
But there are difficulties in challenging bent science including a general lack of recognition of the problem. With an absence of counter-studies to oppose deliberately manufactured ends-oriented research this would be expected.
The Medical Profession, Moral Entrepreneurship, and Social Control Sociologist Stanley Cohen used the term “”moral panic” to characterize the amplification of deviance by the media, the public, an…
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