Tag: American Medical Association

High-powered U.S. Task Force recommends people aged 19-64 be screened for anxiety, depression and suicide.

The FDA believes OTC naloxone will save lives – the FDA is right. But will that ensure the overdose-reversing drug gets where it’s needed?.

Who decides who lives and dies? Some say God. Others say Fate. Some even say Extra-Terrestrials. Many more though believe it’s Big Pharma. Really.

Did the American Medical Association downplay the risk of opioid addiction? Its Purdue-backed teaching tool says Yes — and worse.

To call Dr. Mary Jeanne Kreek the Mother of Medication-Assisted-Treatment (MAT) is no exaggeration. The physician/scientist, who died March 27 at the age of 84, was not only a core part of the team who helped make the process safe, but she “conducted landmark studies that led to the establishment of methadone as a treatment for heroin addiction.”