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Originally Posted by Jeff Higgins
Thanks, George. I get the impression you might be the only one who bothered to read this article. The comment you include from the readers' comments pretty much says it all:..............
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You can never know for sure how many people click an article link, well maybe a computer geek can tell but I cannot.
More on who Josh Bloom is, and why his many articles should matter.
Josh Bloom
https://www.acsh.org/profile/josh-bloom
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Dr. Josh Bloom, the Director of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Science, is a recognized expert on the opioid crisis and was the first journalist to write a nationally published opinion piece about the unintended consequences of a governmental crackdown on prescriptions opioids (New York Post, 2013). Since that time he has published more than a dozen op-eds in regional and national newspapers on different aspects of the crisis. In that same year, he testified at an FDA hearing and was the only speaker to note that fentanyl was the real killer, something that would be proven years later.
He was also the first writer (2016) to study, dissect and ultimately debunk the manipulated statistics used by the CDC to justify its recommendations for opioid prescribing, which have resulted in draconian requirements for prescribing pain medications as well as government-mandated, involuntary tapering of patients receiving opioid treatment, both of which have caused great harm and needless suffering to chronic pain patients. His 2016 article, "Six Charts Designed to Confuse You," is the seminal work on CDC deception and has been adopted by patient advocacy groups and individuals and has been sent to governors and state legislatures...................
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)............I had to look that up because one of the article said standards were being imported from Canada under flawed science.
Maybe Josh's best article yet - shows the math.
2018
The CDC Quietly Admits It Screwed Up Counting Opioid Pills
https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/03/19/cdc-quietly-admits-it-screwed-dishonestly-counting-pills-12717
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Traditionally, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and others have included synthetic opioid deaths in estimates of “prescription” opioid deaths. However, with [fentanyl] likely being involved more recently, estimating prescription opioid–involved deaths with the inclusion of synthetic opioid– involved deaths could significantly inflate estimates.
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This false classification would seem to be no more than a trick. By combining legally prescribed opioids with street drugs the CDC has generated phony data that supports its doctrine - that prescription medications are killing people en masse. They are not. Once the fallacy falls away things look quite different (Table 2).
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