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Acupuncture is a theatrical placebo: the end of a myth
Conclusions It is clear from meta-analyses that results of acupuncture trials are variable and inconsistent, even for single conditions.  After thousands of trials of acupuncture, and hundreds of systematic reviews (Ernst et al., 2011), arguments continue unabated.  In 2011, Pain carried an editorial which summed up the present situation well. “Is there really any need for more studies? Ernst et al. (2011) point out that the positive studies conclude that acupuncture relieves pain in some conditions but not in other very similar conditions. What would you think if a new pain pill was shown to relieve muscu...
Source: DC's goodscience - May 30, 2013 Category: Professors and Educators Authors: David Colquhoun Tags: Academia acupuncture badscience Bait and switch quackademia CAM quackery Source Type: blogs

The Cost of the Opioid Crisis | The New Yorker
In September, 2016, Donald Trump delivered a speech at the Economic Club of New York."Today, I'm going to outline a plan for American economic revival," he said."It is a bold, ambitious, forward-looking plan to massively increase jobs, wages, incomes, and opportunities for the people of our country." He went on to talk about lowering taxes and removing regulations, renegotiating trade deals and building a border wall. But he overlooked one of the most pressing issues facing the American economy today: the opioid crisis.Politicians tend to talk about the crisis in moral terms, focussing on the ways i...
Source: Psychology of Pain - September 24, 2017 Category: Anesthesiology Source Type: blogs

Can You Prevent Relapse with Mindful Meditation?
Mindfulness meditation teaches people how to accept suffering as a normal, cohesive experience, and then move on from it. Relapse has always been a harsh reality of addiction, but as the opioid black market fills with powerful synthetics, relapse on heroin and similar drugs grows increasingly dangerous. Fatal overdoses nearly doubled between 2015 and 2016 — the majority of which are attributed to opioid-based drugs. We are bombarded daily with news headlines — some factual, some fictitious — announcing the newest therapy, or the latest hysteria-provoking scare (does death by fentanyl dust at the grocery s...
Source: World of Psychology - March 25, 2018 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Staff Tags: Addiction Alcoholism Disorders Mindfulness Publishers Recovery Substance Abuse The Fix Mindfulness Meditation Relapse Source Type: blogs

Seizing the Opportunity in America ’ s Opioid Crisis
“Perhaps everything that is terrible is, in the deepest sense, something that wants our love.” – Rilke The overdose epidemic in the U.S. has been called “the greatest public health crisis of our time.” It’s also our greatest opportunity. The opioid crisis is an identity crisis: it’s a challenge to how we see ourselves. Do we truly believe that we are all in this together? One answer leads us deeper into despair. The other, into a hopeful future. It’s been said that “doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.” What are the “right things,” the measures that can r...
Source: World of Psychology - November 30, 2019 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Guest Author Tags: Addiction Publishers The Fix opioid crisis Source Type: blogs