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This is a chronic problem for advocacy-focused documentaries: the ones that are aesthetically meritorious tend to sacrifice their message, and the ones that adhere strictly to a detailed, informative argument, such as “An Inconvenient Truth,” are generally unwatchable. It is unfortunate the same amount of attention is allotted to advocacy documentaries as to films that demonstrate command of form and tell engaging stories. Although they offer treatments of potent topics, too often they end with a call to action that is poorly grounded at best and fraudulent at worst...
...There is unemployment, a brief and relatively routine transitional state that results from the rise and fall of companies in any economy, and there is unemployment--chronic, all-consuming. The former is a necessary lubricant in any engine of economic growth. The latter is a pestilence that slowly eats away at people, families and, if it spreads widely enough, the fabric of society...
Which Painkiller Is Right? One opioid is associated with a significantly higher risk of overdose than other drugs: methadone, which is being used increasingly to treat chronic pain because it is cheaper and draws less scrutiny than other strong, long-acting opioids like Oxycontin...
...involved in 30% of opioid overdose deaths, as reported in malpractice cases, medical literature and federal and state databases. Some of these deaths occurred in heroin users being treated with methadone for addiction, but the overwhelming number of cases were in people who were prescribed the drug for chronic pain. (See the most common hospital mishaps...
...because the how-tos in the treatment of chronic pain are much murkier, research suggests that still only a fraction of such patients receive the medication they need. While in some cases, doctors are using these powerful drugs too often, in others, concerns about misuse may have caused pain patients to suffer unnecessarily. "There is both overprescribing and underprescribing," says Volkow, who notes that, for instance, many dentists give opioids like Percoset too freely to teenagers after surgical procedures; in contrast, "you have individuals with very severe pain who are not given opioids or who are given doses that...