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Doctors Say Black People Have Headaches and Insomnia From Whiteness-Induced PTSD
Are you an insomniac of color, kept conscious by Caucasians? According to experts, it’s perfectly possible.
Mercedes Carnethon, Ph.D., is vice chair of the Northwestern University Department of Preventive Medicine. She’s also a professor of medicine (pulmonary and critical care) and preventative medicine (epidemiology).
From her faculty page:
The professor has pinpointed a problem: Black people are robbed of restfulness by iniquitous Aryans. People of the pale suffer from a sense of supremacy, and that KKK-ish condition is keeping minorities up at night.
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CNN’s aware of the issue — hence its February 13th piece, “Understanding Racial Trauma, the Mental and Emotional Injury of Racism“:
Judging from a host of headlines, white Americans have intensely erred:
University Professor on ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ Panel Announces She Keeps Away From White People
Professor Tells White Student if He’s Breathing, He ‘May Have Oppressed Somebody’ Today
College Op-Ed Asks if White People Should Be Kicked out of Parties
Tennessee University Segregates Students for ‘Antiracism’ Training, Hails the Absence of White People as ‘Magical’
Yale Council Tells Whites to Put Their Coats in Puddles so Black People Can ‘Walk With Ease’
UC Berkeley Professor Told Students Abolishing Whiteness Means Wiping out White People
Yale Medical School Welcomes Psychiatrist Who Dreams of ‘Unloading a Revolver Into the Head of Any White Person’
Back to melatonin and melanin, black Americans traumatized by wicked whiteness will hopefully someday find relief. If justice prevails, they’ll conk out under cozy covers, cradled in the cotton arms of equity.
Leading pediatric ‘gender-affirming care’ doctor leaving university hospital, Texas following state treatment ban
Reacting to Texas legislation banning minor transgender treatments, a prominent “trans-affirming care” doctor said she would leave the state.
“Effective July 31, 2023, Ximena Lopez, M.D. will be closing her practice at UT Southwestern Medical Center,” according to a statement posted to Lopez’s professional page on the UT Southwestern Medical Center website.
Dr. Lopez, an associate professor and pediatric endocrinologist, announced her departure in May, when the Texas bill was still in the Senate, according to The Dallas Morning News.
Reacting to Texas legislation banning minor transgender treatments, a prominent “trans-affirming care” doctor said she would leave the state.
“Effective July 31, 2023, Ximena Lopez, M.D. will be closing her practice at UT Southwestern Medical Center,” according to a statement posted to Lopez’s professional page on the UT Southwestern Medical Center website.
Dr. Lopez, an associate professor and pediatric endocrinologist, announced her departure in May, when the Texas bill was still in the Senate, according to The Dallas Morning News.
The latest black eye to the medical-industrial complex is the string of lawsuits against doctors who prescribed and performed transitioning surgeries on teenagers. Yesterday the UK Daily Mail reported on the latest one:
According to the Daily Mail, Prisha Mosley, 24, says she was confused and battling mental health problems when doctors suggested cross-sex hormones and a double breast removal after several brief consultations, one lasting only minutes. She was 17 at the time.
In her 53-page complaint, Prisha alleges her doctors 'lied', including by saying testosterone jabs would solve all her problems and even make her 'grow a penis.' She has since decided to 'detransition' and live as a woman, and claims financial damages, since the treatments left irreversible scars, a deep voice, body and facial hair, pain in her neck and shoulders, a damaged vagina, she will not be able to breastfeed, and may be infertile.
I have long observed that many teenaged girls “go crazy” around age 17, and don’t become normal human beings again until around age 22, giving their unfortunate parents some very difficult interim years. But apparently that fact is too obscure for the baffled medical community to notice.
☕️ TRIPLE STANDARDS ☙ Wednesday, July 19, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠
The appalling Michigan electors prosecution; Jason Aldean update; no more tax dollars for Wuhan; Biden naps through Israel threat; de-transitioning teen sues doctors; hostile interview tips; more.
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^I follow "Gays Against Groomers" on Twitter. They predict that there will be a tidal wave of detransitioners in the next 5 years or so.
GAG is like the TERF's .... the left eating their own ... an interesting culture war to watch
Black doctor taking CA medical board to court over ‘implicit bias’ training: ‘I don’t want to be taught this evil’
Passed in 2019 and in effect since 2022, California law dictates that the required 50 hours of continuing eduction to maintain a medical license must now “include discussion of ‘implicit bias.'” With a career stretching back to 1973, Dr. Marilyn Singleton is now taking the board and its executives to court over alleged constitutional violations that impact her on two fronts.
“I don’t want to be taught this evil, nor do I want to teach it to others,” she wrote as one of the first black students to attend both Stanford University and the University of California San Francisco’s medical school in an op-ed for Fox News.
Joined by Iranian American Dr. Azadeh Khatibi and the Virginia nonprofit organization Do No Harm (DNH) representing its California members, the suit argued that “implicit bias” is in and of itself racist.
In her opinion piece, Singleton, who also teaches continuing education, explained that her license is up for renewal at the end of this year and, “For me, this is a double whammy. Like all physicians, I have to renew my license, and I frequently teach continuing education courses.”
“The concept of ‘implicit bias’ is racist. It assumes that person’s skin color determines how they treat individuals of different races — that our melanin dictates our interactions with them. The California law takes this claim as fact, stating that ‘implicit bias … exists’ and includes the ‘attitudes or internalized stereotypes that affect our perceptions, actions, and decisions,'” the physician wrote.
“In short, Dr. Tenpenny did not simply fail to cooperate with a Board investigation, she refused to cooperate. And that refusal was based on her unsupported and subjective belief regarding the Board’s motive for the investigation,” Kimberly Lee, a state official, said in the suspension order.
“Licensees of the Board cannot simply refuse to cooperate in investigations because they decide they do not like what they assume is the reason for the investigation,” Ms. Lee said.
State law enables the board to discipline medical professionals for “failure to cooperate in an investigation conducted by the board.”
Dr. Tenpenny said in a video after the suspension that she had cooperated with the board.
“We cooperated at every level. We looked at the letters; we responded appropriately and legally,” Dr. Tenpenny said.
“My lawyers … drafted responses appropriately and sent it back, and they go, ‘nope, you didn’t cooperate with us.’ Well, I guess that just simply means that they didn’t like the answers. But it didn’t mean that I failed to cooperate.”
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“Licensees of the Board cannot simply refuse to cooperate in investigations because they decide they do not like what they assume is the reason for the investigation,” Ms. Lee said.
State law enables the board to discipline medical professionals for “failure to cooperate in an investigation conducted by the board.”
Dr. Tenpenny said in a video after the suspension that she had cooperated with the board.
“We cooperated at every level. We looked at the letters; we responded appropriately and legally,” Dr. Tenpenny said.
“My lawyers … drafted responses appropriately and sent it back, and they go, ‘nope, you didn’t cooperate with us.’ Well, I guess that just simply means that they didn’t like the answers. But it didn’t mean that I failed to cooperate.”
Medical Board Suspends License of Doctor Critical of COVID-19 Vaccines
The Chronicle of Higher Education published a thoughtful essay this week titled, “We Need Scientific Dissidents Now More Than Ever.” The sub-headline added, “The early artificial consensus around Covid’s origins is a wake-up call.”We seem to be living in two worlds. Also this week, USA Today published a scathing diatribe against pandemic-era covid and jab misinformation on social media, headlined “Among those spreading medical misinformation during the pandemic: 52 doctors.”
So which is it? Do we need scientific dissidents now more than ever? Or do we need to put a cap in those 52 heterodox doctors?
USA Today’s article was reporting on a new “study” posted on the JAMA Open Network, titled “Communication of COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media by Physicians in the US.” They defined misinformation as anything varying from CDC pandemic-era guidance.
Because slavish, unthinking adherence to vacillating, politically-driven government propaganda is just what we want in a healthcare system.
The researchers, if you can call them that, “found” that a core group of 52 doctors were responsible for “most” of the non-CDC-approved misinformation. The major themes they identified included: (1) disputing jab safety and effectiveness, (2) promoting “medical treatments” without “scientific evidence” or FDA approval (i.e., ivermectin), (3) disputing that masks can prevent catching covid, and (4) an “catchall” category including things like “unsubstantiated claims virus origin, government lies, and other conspiracy theories.”
In their conclusion, the study’s authors recommended considering taking legal and professional action against these devilish misinformation superspreaders, to teach them a lesson and make sure only government-approved scientific information gets to the public. Legal and professional action against the doctors is, of course, already well underway, mooting their big point.
May they find themselves on the other side of the censorship microscope at some point. Hopefully sooner rather than later.
In contrast, the article in the Chronicle of Higher Education seemed to be making the exact opposite point. It began by telling the shameful story of heroic Vienna medical resident Ignaz Semmelweis, who in 1846 famously ran a test in the charitable childcare clinic where he worked, by asking doctors to wash their hands before working with patients. Patient deaths immediately fell by 90 percent.
In other words, Semmelweis was the guy who figured out hand washing. It was a big deal.
For that remarkable discovery, Mr. Semmelweis was made a doctor, promoted to the Academy of Sciences, and awarded the 1847 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Haha, just kidding! Actually, Semmelweis was ridiculed by the doctors, fired from his Vienna hospital, made a pariah and professionally unemployable, and driven out of Vienna entirely, persona non grata. He died broke in Hungary, in a psychiatric hospital, after suffering a severe beating by asylum guards.
I’m not sure if it would have been any comfort to him, but Mr. Semmelweis’ experience minted a term, the “Semmelweis reflex.” The article quoted intellectual and author Timothy Leary’s definition: the Semmelweis reflex is “mob behavior found among primates and larval hominids on undeveloped planets, in which a discovery of important scientific fact is punished.”
USA Today’s researchers seem to be quite familiar with the Semmelweis reflex, just not in a good way.
The article continued by describing the revolting story of how during the 1960’s and 70’s, the scientific community identified fat — and not sugar, the real culprit — as the cause of plummeting American cardiac health. Since it turns out that it was a sugar lobbying group that single-handedly pulled off the coup, establishing incorrect scientific consensus as dogma for decades, harming who knows how many Americans, the Chronicle’s article observed:
In its final paragraph, the Chronicle’s article landed on a vastly important point, a point the USA Today study researchers should be strongly encouraged to ponder. Here’s how the Chronicle put it:
In other words, heterodox thinkers are an essential and necessary part of the scientific process. They serve as a check on consensus thinking, forcing the consensus to justify and prove their preferred hypothesis and not just sit around in an echo chamber of contented mutual agreement. Heterodox scientists also check government overreach — and how much better off would we have been, had there been more than only 52 such thinkers during the pandemic?
In other words, instead of running pseudo-scientific studies and USA Today articles condemning them, we should be thanking those 52 heterodox doctors.
Finally, the two groups of scholars — The Chronicle’s editors and the study researchers — evidence the battle lines between the establishment (CDC is gospel) brownshirts and the anti-establishment (heterodox thinking is good) counter-revolutionaries.
☕️ HANDWASHERS ☙ Saturday, August 19, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠
The Biden Bribery case and the Censorship investigations; a Proxy War update, in headlines; ChatGPT v. the Deep State; teacher fired for trans story hour; Brits take it to the street (cameras); more.
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Top journal "Science" says more than 2,600 of its papers may have ‘exaggerated claims’
More than 2,600 of the papers from "Science," the peer-reviewed academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and one of the world's top academic journals, were examined in depth by another research journal, "Scientometrics." It found in a study that from 1997 to 2021, the use of "hedging" words have fallen by about 40%.
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According to the non-profit Influence Watch, "the federal government is the largest identifiable source of funding for AAAS," giving it $3.3 million annually between 2008 – 2017, not counting other grants it has received. Science was first published in 1880 with seed money from Thomas Edison.
Continuing, the journal group said "less hedging may reflect a subtle strategy by authors to sell their results to editors and readers as an alternative to explicit exaggeration," according to the study.
In 2020, AAAS highlighted several scientists who steadfastly insisted that questions regarding Covid-19 coming from the Wuhan lab was merely "a conspiracy theory." AAAS also repeatedly promoted Covid-19 vaccinations.
Social psychologist Melissa Wheeler reacted to the study’s findings, warning that prudence in academic research is "vital to communicating what one’s data can actually say and what it merely implies."
"If academic writing becomes more about the rhetoric ... it will become more difficult for readers to decipher what is groundbreaking and truly novel."
What did I tell you? The Establishment Media’s covid variant alarmism has once again saved the day!
According to CNBC, after a week of wall-to-wall scariant coverage, sacrifices to the pagan god Eris, two minor mask mandate announcements, and anonymous officials whispering about plans for new Fall lockdowns and airline mandates, shares of Novavax shot up +13%, Moderna’s stock closed up +9%, BioNTech was up +6%, and even Pfizer’s stock ended around +1% higher.
Here is the logic behind the increases, as reported by CNBC. See if it makes any sense to you:
Um. There no evidence of increased risk, but they expect demand to jump anyway. I’ll take a stab at explaining this apparent contradiction: Fear sells vaccines.
And yesterday, of course, from the CDC (via the Epoch Times):
They can’t leave out the most important customer group: repeat jabbers.
☕️ CRUEL AND UNUSUAL☙ Thursday, August 24, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠
Multiplier; thoughts about the debates/interview; goodbye Prighozin, or is it?; BRICS balloons; media rescues Big Pharma, again; Hawaii killed people with roadblocks; SBF suffers; Big Law woes; more.
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Last week, MedPage Today ran a story headlined, “Top Patient Advocacy Orgs Have Industry Ties in Leadership, Study Shows.” The sub-headline added, “Half had paid staff or executives with pharma and medical device conflicts of interest.”https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch...6135-391d-46e1-9ee2-cb4abf7d70f3_1382x532.png
In other words, Big Pharma has captured the pro-patient charities.
Patient Advocacy Organizations (PAOs) are charitable non-profits allegedly organized to represent patient interests. They include organizations like American Cancer Society, the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, the Cancer Research Institute, and the Foundation Fighting Blindness — which were all found to have leaders with direct ties to big pharma.
According to a recent research letter published in JAMA Internal Medicine, 75% of the 50 biggest PAOs in the U.S. have board members or senior leadership with ties to the pharmaceutical or medical device industry, in many cases working for industry and the charity at the same time.
Study co-author Shamik Bhat, BS, Yale School of Medicine, told MedPage, "the vast majority of these groups have not only financial ties, but now we can see that they also have deep integration in their boards, and their higher-up leadership, with industry."
The data wasn’t easy for the researchers to find. Regulations do not require nonprofits to disclose broad conflicts of interest like these. The study researchers had to scour personal websites and LinkedIn profiles to discover industry ties to PAO leadership. "Whether it's intentional or not, I think transparency for a lot of these patient advocacy organizations is a pretty significant weakness at the moment," Bhat noted.
You don’t say.
All in all, a completely unsurprising finding, and it explains a lot about how these groups all fell immediately in line with government policy during the pandemic, including opposing early covid treatments and pushing mandates, expensive deadly medicines, and the ventilator.
☕️ TOXIC ☙ Monday, August 28, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠
Study shows N95 masks rife with bad chemicals; 75% of pro-patient charities run by big pharma; Prigozhin dead; Speaker teases Biden impeachment; rocky NFL pre-season; refinery fire; Shokin; more!
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New mandatory hospital staff training promotes transitioning 4-year-olds
An employee at Kaiser Permanente, one of the largest healthcare providers on the West Coast, reached out to us after she was mandated to take a new staff training on “gender affirming care.” The employee, who wishes to remain anonymous for fear of losing her job, was horrified that a healthcare facility would be promoting the mutilation and castration of children.
Let’s take a deep dive into what Kaiser is teaching their staff about children transitioning. First, the learning objections state that employees should be able to “explain the importance of gender affirming care to patients.” Doctors need to be able to explain to teenagers why it’s so important to get their breasts chopped off! Makes complete sense.
Next, providers employed by KP are required to watch a forty-five minute course featuring a series of videos about Transgender and Gender Diverse care.
In the training video, a young boy who now identifies as a girl, discusses how he always knew he was a boy from age 4. Another individual, now an adult identifying as a man, says she knew she was trans at age 3.
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More of the training video feature a variety of transgender people speaking of how unsafe they feel, the dangers of using a gendered restroom, and claims of “violence.” The most oppressed and marginalized group who only have their flags hanging all over schools, stores, libraries, streets, offices, etc., are of course, the true victims.
On their website, Kaiser has a chart on “Culturally Responsive Care” for transgender and gender-nonconforming people. They claim sex is “assigned” at birth and suggest there are many genders. Imagine going to a doctor who thinks a person’s biological sex is “assigned” and that there are infinite genders!
Kaiser also boasts on their site that they provide pediatric gender care, offering surgical procedures and irreversible hormone therapy which they offer to children.
For more on Kaiser’s sex change surgeries which they do on minors, read our article about a KP whistleblower here.
One former patient, Chloe Cole, who received a double mastectomy as a teen, is suing Kaiser for what they did to her when she was young and confused.
Surgeries on minors in the name of “gender affirmation” are extremely harmful. Children aren’t old enough to make such a drastic decision. One study even reports that people who underwent sex change surgery have a higher rate of suicidal ideation and psychiatric issues AFTER surgery.
SCOOP: New mandatory hospital staff training promotes transitioning 4-year-olds
An employee at Kaiser Permanente, one of the largest healthcare providers on the West Coast, reached out to us after she was mandated to take a new staff training on “gender affirming care.” The employee, who wishes to remain anonymous for fear of losing her job, was horrified that a healthcare...
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Researchers question one-size-fits-all COVID booster strategy as FDA circumvents advisors
Weill Cornell Medical College immunologist John Moore told Just the News in Monday, before the FDA announcement, that he favored making boosters available for younger people — with their doctors' approval — primarily for the "mental well being" of those who "have angst about not getting a regular vaccine boost."
While boosting them provides "possible (and hard to quantify) benefits" to protect their "older, at risk colleagues/relatives," Moore wrote in an email, it does not pose "significant health risks" to young people at low risk from COVID, "a line the anti-vaxxers take and thrive on."
Last month the Department of Health and Human Services awarded more than $1.4 billion to develop new COVID vaccines and therapeutics despite CDC data showing just 1 in 6 Americans, and fewer than half of those over 65, are "up to date" with COVID vaccinations.
That shows the Biden administration wasted "the vast majority" of the two-strain bivalent doses it purchased for $4.9 billion without waiting for human data, Johns Hopkins medical professor and National Academy of Medicine member Marty Makary wrote in The Wall Street Journal.
Unlike flu shots, which are approved each year without randomized trials, most COVID vaccines are built on a novel platform and have "high complication rates" in some groups, Makary said, citing mainstream research.
United Health sued for allegedly using AI to deny elderly patients care
UnitedHealth Group is being sued for allegedly using an artificial intelligence algorithm to systematically deny elderly patients rehabilitative care.
The class action lawsuit, filed Tuesday in Minnesota district court, says the defendants — UnitedHealth Group, UnitedHealthCare and NaviHealth — illegally used an AI model called nH Predict in place of medical professionals despite knowing it had a 90% error rate. This helped the group continuously deny Medicare Advantage Plan patients the care their doctors said was necessary, such as nursing facility stays, by "predicting" what a patient "should" require instead of what they actually do, the lawsuit states.
It also says the defendants intentionally limited "their employees' discretion to deviate" from nH Predict, forcing them to meet dedicated targets of use or be disciplined and terminated.
Last week the pharmaceutical industry trade press ran a huge, hair-raising story largely ignored by corporate media. BioProcess International ran it on Thursday headlined, “Done and Dusted: Pfizer completes $43bn Seagen deal.”
Seagen (stock ticker SGEN) owns 25 FDA-approved high-tech cancer drugs — especially aggressive, treatment-resistant types of cancer. The deal was first announced back in March, but has been awaiting regulatory approval. Here’s how Bloomberg then described Seagen:
ADC’s combine two existing technologies: monoclonal antibodies and chemotherapy. In summary, a little bit of toxic chemotherapy is sprinkled into an antibody that mostly targets cancer cells. Once the antibody reaches the cancer, in a mechanism that is not entirely clear to me it smashes the poison pellet against the cancer cell’s wall, the cell eats the poison, and then dies.
Because ADC antibodies are designed for cancer cells, they mostly avoid poisoning people’s healthy cells. Because of this targeted approach, ADCs reportedly have fewer and less severe side effects and can risk using stronger poison compared to traditional chemotherapy.
No pun intended, cancer is a growth market. You might even call it the new gold rush. Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla did. In a call with financial reporters, Bourla literally described buying Seagen as “buying the goose that lays the golden eggs:”
Seagen is the goose, cancer is the golden eggs, and we have to eat the eggs.
Ominously, Businesswire quoted Bourla explaining that, for some reason, Pfizer expects a THIRD of us to get cancer. (I tried, but could find no official source supporting his figures.):
That mind-blowing number (33%) is also coincidentally half of the number people who got the shot (67%). Just saying.
There were several remarkable features of Pfizers’ acquisition of Seagen:
- Pfizer paid an astounding $43 billion for the cancer drugmaker — over 98% of what Elon Musk paid for Twitter ($44 billion).
- Actually, Pfizer paid more than $43 billion, maybe a lot more. To “resolve” the FTC’s concerns with the deal, Pfizer also agreed to donate all future U.S. royalties from its cancer drug Bavencio (avelumab) to the American Association for Cancer Research. (Somebody should check who the FTC just made rich over at the AACR.)
- It was the largest pharma acquisition of any kind since 2020.
- Seagen was only valued at $14 billion, at most. Pfizer paid more than three times Seagen’s closing price per share, not including the other deal elements.
- As I mentioned, Seagen’s drugs are designed to treat resistant turbo cancers.
Before it vanishes into the Internet’s circular file, the National Cancer Institute’s web page still says that, before 2020, cancer rates were steady and mortality was *steadily decreasing.* Don’t let them gaslight you into thinking they’ve been on the rise for decades.
Before 2020, new cancer rates were stable, not growing, and were decreasing for many types of cancer including lung cancer, brain cancer, and non-Hodgkin lymphomas:
Meanwhile, mortality was steadily falling:
For some unexplained reason, the NCI last updated its cancer statistics on September 25th, 2020 — right before the jab campaigns started — and has not updated them since. One wonders on what the NCI’s statistics office’s budget has been spent for the last three+ years.
A really lucrative business model occurred to me while I was writing this up. Purely hypothetically, you could sell a defective — but liability-free — product to two-thirds of Americans, which would create some horrible problem for about a third of them. Then you could make a bunch of fabulously expensive, fully-patented, unimaginably-profitable high-tech products to deal with the very problems that the first product created. (And you’d really start making money when sold your patented solutions to the rest of the world who also bought your first defective product.)
Of course, you would have to be downright evil to go for a business model like that, but hey.
☕️ GOLDEN GEESE ☙ Tuesday, December 19, 2023 ☙ C&C NEWS 🦠
Pfizer just bought the Golden Goose; another vaccine conspiracy theory just became conspiracy fact; and San Fransisco's brand-new, woke Office of Reparations faces an unfortunate setback.
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State Medicaid offices target dead people’s homes to recoup their health care costs
A person’s home is typically exempt from qualifying for Medicaid. But it is subject to the estate recovery process for those who were over 55 and used Medicaid to pay for long-term care such as nursing home stays or in-home health care.
This month, a Democratic lawmaker proposed scuttling the “cruel” program altogether. Critics argue the program collects too little — roughly 1% — of the more than $150 billion Medicaid spends yearly on long-term care. They also say many states fail to warn people who sign up for Medicaid that big bills and claims to their property might await their families once they die.
American Medical Association delegates vote to decriminalize drug use, possession
"The war on drugs is quite reminiscent of the phrase, 'The beatings will continue until morale improves,'" said AMA Connecticut delegate Ryan Englander. "We have tried for decades to criminalize our way out of a substance use crisis in this country, and it has not worked."
Englander said Portugal's experience of decriminalization allowed the country to get people into treatment and drug use mortality dropped.
Delegates passed the drug decrimninalization proposal in the face of opposition from the AMA's Board of Trustees. The board said "it is premature to recommend decriminalizing drug possession offenses as a public health benefit in the absence of evidence demonstrating public health benefits."