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Anxiety, Depression, and Insomnia Among Adults With Opioid Dependence Treated With Extended-Release Naltrexone vs Buprenorphine-Naloxone A Randomized Clinical Trial and Follow-up Study
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abstract/2718627 Comment; Long term treatment with naltrexone seems to work as well for anxiety, depression & insomnia as combination buprenorphine/naloxone...
A Multicountry Updated Assessment of the Economic Impact of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder
https://journals.lww.com/journaladdictionmedicine/Abstract/2018/12000/A_Multicountry_Updated_Assessment_of_the_Economic.10.aspx Comment; Not much new in this article, admission that the data is scarce and likely under-represents the true burden which is significant...
Opioids fueled a doubling of suicides and overdoses in the US
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190107110837.htm Comment; Since 2000 there's been a dramatic increase in both overdose & suicide, most of the overdose deaths & suicides involve opioids. It's hard to determine suicide vs. accidental overdose,...
Is Marijuana as Safe as We Think?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/14/is-marijuana-as-safe-as-we-think Comment; Insightful, thorough, well-researched article that starts with how much we don't know about pot, goes through the associations/(causality?) between pot and various mental illnesses...
Legal Strategies in CIRS-WDB; Legal Fraud
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_8CQsUNuthiXRDLJEDyOEwFMj28UDYZE/view?usp=sharing Comment; Sharon Kramer starts the series with an introduction by Scott McMahon MD in this Shoemaker-sponsored series of how the legal trade (certainly no profession in this instance!)...
Gut Dysbiosis & Leaky Gut Syndrome
Comment; The gut is a source of interaction with our environment, less than our respiratory tissues in terms of volume, but more in terms of duration of contact with potential problems. The GI Map uses DNA probes to detect microbes that are very difficult to find with...
MARCoNS Treatment Notes from Wally Taylor MD & Mary Ackerly MD
Having practiced surgical ENT for the first 25 years of medical practice before migrating to environmental medicine 20 years ago, I have found nasal saline irrigation alone (I prefer the NeilMed rinse kit to the Neti pot) to be amazingly effective at reducing nasal...
Chronic treatment of mitochondrial disease patients with dichloroacetate.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15464428 Comment; This may be why vinegar supplements work so well in certain folks with fatigue, or supplements can be purchased for those who don't like the taste. Pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase (also pyruvate dehydrogenase complex...
Dr. Oenbrink was an answered prayer
If you have given up and feel like there is no more hope after going from doctor to doctor, please read this because I was there myself. After 2 years of being ill and from doctor to doctor I was not only getting frustrated, but more sick. Every doctor I went to kept...
The Treatment Gap In Rehab; ‘Two Warring Factions’: Abstinence vs. Medication
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/29/health/opioid-rehab-abstinence-medication.html Comment; It was bound to happen eventually, that insurers would see the benefit of MAT. Rush Limbaugh famously says “follow the money”. Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) is much...
An Investigation into Techniques for Cleaning Mold-Contaminated Home Contents
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Got Mold? Now What? Hope for Health and Home!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NIih2zBkWIlsbkARTnG6jSnzYN3kdFp_/view?usp=sharing Comment; Great review from Dr. Margaret Christensen and Carpathia Collaborative on the various means to support healing from CIRS! Got Mold? Now What? Hope for Health and Home! Overview...
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