that our venerated profession is no longer interested in addressing the causes of disease.


“we work on their nutrition, diet, sleep habits, smoke habits, helping [them] find work—then they improve.”
― Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
― Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

“Out in Washington State, Jaymie Mai and Gary Franklin continued chronicling the effects of what Franklin called “the worst man-made epidemic in history, made by organized medicine.”
― Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
― Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

“It didn’t treat any root cause of stress. Instead, it treated vague symptoms and thus allowed doctors to avoid the complicated work of understanding the causes of that stress.”
― Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
― Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

“Only anecdotally did doctors discover the risk of thalidomide.”
― Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
― Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic

“Thus addiction exploded—to a drug that people believed was safe because doctors said so.”
― Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
― Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic
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