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December 9, 2016 By e-Patient Dave Leave a Comment

Opioids 2: the supply side of the problem – like lethal brush fires

Source: WIkipedia ("Harris Fire"
Source: Wikipedia (“Harris Fire”) outside San Diego, 2007

Last minute update:
Yesterday, as I was drafting this, federal officials arrested six former employees of a drug company for flat-out bribing some doctors to overprescribe fentanyl, which is 40-50x stronger than heroin, the cause of many opioid deaths.


As I’ve said in other posts, this is a complicated subject so don’t jump to conclusions until you’ve read it.

Yesterday, in Opioids. Alarm, and I mean YOU, I posted about how dreadful and drastic the opioids problem has gotten, citing (as just one example) a small high school in Maine where five percent of kids have been dying in every class. Think of how many were in your graduating class, and imagine 1/20th of them dying before graduation.

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December 8, 2016 By e-Patient Dave 1 Comment

Opioids. Alarm, and I mean YOU.

I posted this on Facebook in my high school class’s private group, and reaction was strong enough that I re-posted it public, with even more response.

This is sobering, very sobering, but I think everyone in the US needs to think seriously about it. My high school had 110-120 students per year.
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Opioids. A sobering story I can think about compared to MHS.

I’m at a policy workgroup in DC that’s been working for years on integrating behavioral and mental health into primary care. (Its work is finally published at integrationacademy.ahrq.gov.) We’ve been reconvened to address opioids – providing info for family docs who are now being faced with this issue, which is far far FAR from dealing with chicken pox and broken arms. :-(

A family doc from Maine is here. He has four kids, in separate high school classes. SMALL school – half our size – 60 per year. And in just those four years, THIRTEEN KIDS have died of opioids.

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January 16, 2016 By e-Patient Dave 6 Comments

Dr. Rich Mahogany’s “Man Therapy” – with 18 Point Head Inspection :-)

Screen capture of "Dr. Rich Mahogany's Man Therapy" (not a real therapist"

Update, December 7: I’m at a meeting talking about community mental health in Colorado, and it turns out this program didn’t work out as being effective.

I recently attended the first White House Dialog on Men’s Health, at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building. The day got a little out of control – speakers in the first session ran way long, nobody reined them in, so the middle hour (where I was going to co-lead a breakout) got cancelled. Oh well. But for me the whole trip was worth it just to discover this: “Dr. Rich Mahogany,” a fictional therapist who makes clear that getting therapy is not just for woosses, it’s for real men, too: his site is Man Therapy, including a manly, interactive 18 Point Head Inspection.

It’s all real – the information is serious – but it’s couched in terms to be humorous, entertaining and engaging, as in “Stick around – there’s something useful here. Have a seat.” Here’s the About video, from their YouTube channel:
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