George Digianni Health And Wellness

In this episode we talk about: Purdue Pharma pled guilty to criminal consumer fraud in 2007 for lying about the addiction risk of their opioid medications and paid a fine of over $600 million but no one went to jail. Doctors receive, on average, less than two hours of education on pain in medical school 40% of visits to primary care physicians are for pain Americans spend over $34 billion annually out of pocket for alternative medicine because they want safe, effective care and health insurers rarely pay Doctors, fearful of prosecution for over prescribing are not prescribing pain meds anymore. Millions of people are addicted to opioids, hundreds of thousands dead.  Now they're being abruptly cut off and offered nothing to replace it.