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There's an opioid epidemic sweeping the nation. If psychiatry has anything more effective for treatment than court-mandated AA (well, NA), now would be the time to do something, because people are dying left and right. Current treatment regimes are totally ineffectual. 30-days of rehab, along with religion-based and "addition is a moral failing" 12-step programs isn't cutting it.

It's not the number of theories that count, what counts is if there is a theory is actually useful in modeling results. If the car won't run and there's no gasoline, call it a disease of gasoline if you have to, but adding gas does wonders for my car actually running.

The late 1800's opiate epidemic called; they want to know if psychiatry has actually advanced in the interceding years.



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