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Docs Make Fake Pills Real Meds [podcast]

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Docs Make Fake Pills Real Meds

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Debunking Medical Myths [podcast]

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Debunking Medical Myths

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The only thing worse than letting addicted docs practice is banning them...

The AP is reporting on controversy in California over the way treatment for addicted doctors is handled by the state medical board.

California recently scrapped its system for anonymously treating addicted doctors without informing patients of their physicians’ condition-- following outrage over botched surgery by an addicted plastic surgeon. But its new cure for the problem may be worse than the disease.

For one, what the AP doesn’t mention is that treatment for addicted doctors is one of the shining successes in the addiction world: virtually all treatment (even programs known to contain elements that are ineffective or harmful) produces impressive outcomes.

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