from the study itself:
Among patients with cancer, prescribing rates were over 2.5 times higher from January 1, 2025, to July 31, 2025, compared with January 1, 2024, to July 31, 2024
from the study itself:
Among patients with cancer, prescribing rates were over 2.5 times higher from January 1, 2025, to July 31, 2025, compared with January 1, 2024, to July 31, 2024
In a better world the people promoting this stuff would be in jail as they’re exploiting people’s fear for their own profit.
How much money did Joe Rogan get paid to guide all of these people to commit a round about way of suicide? How cheap is the price of a life going for these days? $10?
While i agree I do place some blame on doctors and pharmaceutical companies. The distrust of medicine and doctors didn’t happen in a vacuum. Doctors often get perks or straight up cash from pharmaceutical reps to push medications or medical devices that arent needed, straight up dont work, or cause permanent injury.
Doctors whored us out to the Sackler family and helped cause the opioid crisis. I can’t really fault someone for having a lack of trust
Unfortunately very true. Over a decade ago I worked on a project that built a database of every MD in North America and most of Europe. That then got hooked up to a couple different systems that maintained a track on them (employer, title, etc) but also heavily focused on if they did any research. This part was its own data store because it was like a four dimensional record of what MD’s were specialized into what, ranked them by what line they were on as a paper’s authors list, and a progression in their specialty. Pharmaceuticals reps already had the raw data but no one had put together.
The primary customers of this were obviously pharmaceuticals who found an exploit. Reps would have to document exactly what they gave MD’s to ensure there was proof they hadn’t tried to bribe the MD in any form. Now the exploit was something like. “Hey Dr. Specialist, we would like to fund your research!” Completely legal and I believe under a completely different set of regulations.
And very few MDs pushing opiods had any repercussions.
Quacks deserve long sentences.