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Greed to Do Good: The Untold Story of CDC's Disastrous War on Opioids w/ Charles LeBaron, M.D.
On this edition of Parallax Views, former CDC epidemiologist and physician Dr. Charles LeBaron joins us to discuss his explosive new book Greed to Do Good: The Untold Story of CDC’s Disastrous War on Opioids. Drawing on his rare vantage point as a public health insider (with 28 years' experience at the CDC), clinician, and former pain patient, Dr. LeBaron argues that the CDC’s 2016 opioid guidelines—meant to reduce overdose deaths—actually worsened the crisis.
We explore how flawed data, political pressure, and a rigid, arguably even at times psuedo-scientific approach led to a policy that…
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