The Ideological Aversion to Harm Reduction
Progress has stalled in two major areas of harm reduction—opioid abuse and smoking—not because of physician resistance but because of non-physicians drunk on ideology.
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Progress has stalled in two major areas of harm reduction—opioid abuse and smoking—not because of physician resistance but because of non-physicians drunk on ideology.
Encephalitis recovery often takes years, not months, and some patients never fully recover.
True progress in medicine can only be accomplished when we maintain a consistent standard of scientific excellence and honest inquiry.
Because Huntington’s disease is caused by a single gene mutation, it is a prime early target for clinical trials involving somatic cell genome editing.
The real beauty of the biopsychosocial approach is that it has application to the individual (both in terms of causal explanation and of treatment offered), to the wider population, and to research.