The current trend among the chronic pain community — unfortunately driven by some of their loudest advocates — is to stigmatize medications which can highly effective for many patients and for the right conditions. One of the main targets of this stigmatizing misinformation is buprenorphine. Why? Because buprenorphine is a…

The federal omnibus appropriations package that was signed into law by President Biden in January 2023 included language originally from the Mainstreaming Addiction Treatment (MAT) Act, which eliminated the requirement that healthcare providers possess a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) DATA 2000 waiver, or “X-waiver,” to prescribe buprenorphine to treat opioid…

No, you aren’t better than people with opioid use disorder. Instead, you’re perpetuating the stigma that harms you. Let me explain. As a matter of grammar, the statement “correct use does not equal abuse” is unfalsifiably true. Ok, so then how can a true statement also be problematic? Enter, stigma. …

Let’s talk about the recent legal cases involving California’s AB2098 — the bill addressing physicians spreading COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccine misinformation in the setting of a physician-patient relationship: Law aimed at doctors who spread COVID-19 misinformation is put on hold by judge A federal judge in California has temporarily blocked the enforcement of AB 2098, a weeks-old state law intended to…www.latimes.com

Cervical artery neck dissections are a known though uncommon complication of neck manipulation or rapid rotational force applied to the neck, particularly in an extended position. Cervical artery dissections occur in an estimated 1:20,000 neck manipulations but there are LOTS of manipulations performed each day . Yet despite this evidence…

So this paper in Science is an interesting paper with important findings that I think merit discussion: “Class switch towards non-inflammatory, spike-specific IgG4 antibodies after repeated SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination” Here’s the gist: everyone thinks of neutralization when it comes to antibodies (that is — stopping viruses from infecting cells) and…

I received my first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID vaccine, now called “Comirnaty” on December 22nd, 2020. I cannot tell you how amazing that felt, finally being able to have some level of protection from a respriatory virus which we saw first hand causing suffering and death both of patients…

I watched the verdicts read out live in the civil suit against Alex Jones by the families of the Sandy Hook victims, and I have to say that I look forward to seeing Jones have to declare bankruptcy. These numbers are incredible, and well deserved. The final total comes out…

The bivalent boosters (with half BA.4/BA.5 and half ancestral variant) were designed to produce antibodies and immune memory to Omicron, and have demonstrated pan-Omicron efficacy as shown in studies just released over the last few days. Keep in mind that Pfizer and Moderna had already performed human trials in a…