When someone you love enters a rehabilitation facility, you’re placing an enormous amount of trust in the people who work there, trusting that the doctors, nurses, and staff will protect them at one of the most vulnerable moments of their life. But not every rehab facility holds up its end of that trust. Medical malpractice …
The Medical Board of California sends out a license alert whenever it disciplines a physician. These notices are public record, and they give patients a direct look at which doctors have faced action from the state. To help you stay informed, this post below lists the license alerts the Board issued in October 2024. It …
Nutrition and Addiction Recovery A balanced diet provides nutrients that support overall health. During addiction recovery, good nutrition can also help the body heal. However, substance use can disrupt eating habits and contribute to nutritional deficiencies. Therefore, treatment programs should address nutrition alongside other recovery needs. medlineplus.gov The original article attributes its discussion of nutritional …
If somebody dies, even in drug rehab, shouldn’t it be a potential crime? Activists acknowledge that drug use can be lethal. But rehabs charge huge money for safe recovery. When they fail, criminal charges are rare. With enormous hope, Gail and Warwick Dunnett sent their son Harrison — a rapper, poet and musician who struggled …
New research shows that physicians in industry-sponsored trials are more captured by pharmaceutical companies than physicians in unsponsored ones. Economists love health care because it is a classic example of “information asymmetry”: patients do not know what treatment they need, how much it should cost, or which tests will properly diagnose them. Instead, patients have …
Dozens of medical professionals in seven states were charged Wednesday with participating in the illegal prescribing of more than 32 million pain pills, including doctors who prosecutors said traded sex for prescriptions and a dentist who unnecessarily pulled teeth from patients to justify giving them opioids. The 60 people indicted include 31 doctors, seven pharmacists, …
