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Tag: addiction

9/7/2018

5-Star Friday: Unexpected endings

5/4/2018

5-Star Friday: Put these gems on your weekend reading list

2 5/2/2018

NYT ponders if IV drug users should get ‘second chance’ at heart surgeries, triggering outcry from addiction experts

4/26/2018

Insurance company red tape: a potentially deadly barrier to opioid addiction treatment

10 3/12/2018

News stories about kratom, an herbal ‘opioid alternative,’ wrongly prioritize propaganda over science

2/2/2018

5-Star Friday: The judicious use of anecdote

2 6/8/2017

A single paragraph published nearly 40 years ago contributed to the opioid epidemic. What can we learn from this?

6 9/27/2016

How to write about addiction without promoting stigma and bias: 4 tips for journalists

23 6/2/2016

“Opioid painkillers cause chronic pain” stories leave physician reader in agony

4/22/2016

New hope in the epidemic of binge-drinking rodents: Aussie lab sparks premature claims on old drugs as addiction treatments

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With the discontinuation of @HealthNewsRevu, there's a genuine concern that well-written and researched "reality checks" in healthcare are not economically interesting. This should be disconcerting to anyone, and yet I'm only seeing more and more piling into "promising findings"

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Thanks for sharing this with all of us today, @garyschwitzer @HealthNewsRevu
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