Australia Begins Setting Up Patient Aftercare Programs To Combat The Opioid Epidemic.

The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (ACSQHC) is urging medical practitioners in Australia to reevaluate how opioid therapy is presently administered. According to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare’s 2016-2017 figures, more than three million individuals receive at least one opioid prescription each year. While opioids are helpful in relieving pain, long-term usage can result in significant adverse effects such as addiction and unintentional overdose. The ACSQHC has released the Opioid Analgesic Stewardship in Acute Pain Clinical Care Standard, which outlines how emergency and surgery aftercare personnel should utilize opioids. The new guideline encourages clinicians to utilize non-opioid pain relievers wherever feasible and to set up an aftercare program to help patients wean themselves off opioids. Anne Duggan, Honorary Professor at the University of Newcastle and ACSQHC Chief Medical Officer, stated in a commission press…

Read More

Big Tech Profiting from Human Trafficking, Revenge-Porn

the Opioid Epidemic, Drug Addiction, Terrorism, and Other Forms of Human Misers…. There are growing and bipartisan alarm among Americans about the “bad acts” of Big Tech companies. For far too long, Big Tech has gotten away with profiting from human trafficking, revenge-porn, the opioid epidemic, and drug addiction, terrorism, and other forms of human misery, while engaging in egregious business practices like snooping, spying, political bias against conservatives, employee abuses, and anticompetitive conduct. Big Tech has engaged in this deplorable conduct largely free from any real oversight from Republicans or Democrats in Washington. That’s not surprising, especially if you understand the ways of the DC Swamp. Big Tech is “feeding chickens” — in the form of political contributions, cushy jobs and consulting gigs, and the like — to satiate the out-of-touch Ruling Class of the DC Swamp. Just like Big Tech Obama Democrats, Corporate Republicans take these handouts from liberal Silicon Valley executives, while taking potshots at principled Republicans and Democrats who dare to raise concerns about the Big Tech bullies. The DC Swamp is the only place on the planet where the reptiles lack backbones. Fortunately, bold and courageous conservatives and populist progressives are stepping up on behalf of the American…

Read More