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Opioid Commission Mistakenly Blames Pain Treatment for Drug Deaths – Jacob Sullum|Nov. 2, 2017

In the report it published yesterday (Nov 1, 2017), the President’s Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis, chaired by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, endorses what has become the standard explanation for the rise in opioid-related deaths during the last decade and a half.

“A widely held and supportable view is that the modern opioid crisis originated within the healthcare system,” the report says. The problem began, it explains, with “a growing compulsion to detect and treat pain.”

That response is fundamentally misguided because the narrative endorsed by the commission is wrong in several crucial ways.  

Southern Sage responds to critics of an article SLL posted yesterday. From Southern Sage at theburningplatform.com:

I recently wrote an article about the death of Victor Jara, a Chilean Communist folk singer, and the September 11, 1973 coup in Chile, carried out by General Augusto Pinochet.  A number of readers expressed some skepticism about the article or objected to my central point, that hard choices and hard measures have to be taken to deal with Communists before they deal with you.  By “Communists” I do not mean just members of “official” Communist parties, who are often pen-pushing, lazy nobodies.

I include all Marxists who believe that they have a right to use violence or other extra-legal means to impose their will on ordinary people.  This most certainly includes Marxists who claim that they want to use democratic means to impose a Marxist state of any description.  My view, simply…

1986 US Army Radio Wave Propagation and Antennas

Straightforward reading. Includes test material on the information.

Of course its useless without actual hands on training.