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‘I don’t see how it ends’: expert sounds alarm on new wave of US opioids crisis – Stigmatis

…Van Zee supported the “No Free Lunch” movement which sought to break the link between the drug industry and medical training for doctors. Big pharma has a large say in the writing of training manuals which sometimes had the effect of pushing their drugs over other more effective treatments, one reason Americans consume prescription medication at a much higher rate than other countries.

“They called attention to the issue but it’s always been a minority voice. By and large the profession is quite willing to take the free lunches,” he said.

Van Zee is not optimistic that the link between corporate money, regulation and the practice of medicine will be broken any time soon…

Source: ‘I don’t see how it ends’: expert sounds alarm on new wave of US opioids crisis – Stigmatis

USS BARB SS-220 | Pacific Paratrooper

In the closing months of World War II, heavy losses and depleted fuel stocks kept many of Japan’s remaining combat aircraft grounded and warships in port, awaiting an anticipated amphibious invasion. Starting in July 1945, Allied battleships embarked on a series of naval bombardments of coastal cities in Japan in an effort to draw these forces out to battle — with little success.

However, a week before the battleships began lobbing their massive shells, a legendary U.S. submarine toting a rocket launcher began its own campaign of coastal terror that foretold the future of naval warfare — and also engaged in the only Allied ground-combat operation on Japanese home-island soil…

USS Barb, SS-220

Source: USS BARB SS-220 | Pacific Paratrooper