Epidemics

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Public Health Officials Should Avoid ‘Deeming’ Epidemics, Especially When They’re Ignoring the One They Created

written by Lindsey Stroud

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Epidemics, Fear and Denial: How Every American Is Threatened

by Jane M. Orient, M.D. December 11, 2018

This is the one hundredth anniversary of the great influenza pandemic of 1918. In his book The Great Influenza, John M. Barry described it as the deadliest plague in history.

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The Opioid Disaster—Who Benefits?

by Jane M. Orient, M.D. October 11, 2017

The opioid crisis in America is real, it is lethal, and it may be killing the nice family that lives next door to you.

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Publisher	Editor-in-chief
Tim Huelskamp	Jim Lakely

Contributors
David Applegate	S.T. Karnick
Diane Carol Bast	Donald Kendal
Joe Bast	Jay Lehr
H. Sterling Burnett	Seton Motley
Edmund Contoski	Bartley J. Madden
David S. D'Amato	Dr. Jane Orient
Paul Driessen	Brad Rodu
Richard Ebeling	Jim Rust
Matthew Glans	Jeff Stier
Steve Goreham	Lindsey Stroud
Robert Holland	James Taylor
Lennie Jarratt	Daniel Sutter