Are Profiteers Continuing to Downplay 'Addiction' to the Medical Profession??
Aug-15-2014
Salem-News.com's Marianne Skolek will be speaking at the FED UP Rally in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 28.
Are Profiteers Continuing to Downplay "Addiction" to the Medical Profession with the words "Chemical Coping?
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(MYRTLE BEACH, SC) - In a continuing effort to convince the medical profession that dangerous prescription opioids are not "addictive" by substituting words such as "pseudo-addiction", "tolerance" and "dependent" add the words "chemical coping."
Let's begin with Steven D. Passik, PhD. He is Associate Attending Psychologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the author of "The Chemical Coper" 2009.
Here is the link to Passik's presentation Cached.. Click on the website that pops up for the entire article. A few statements that Passik made about "the chemical coper" are as follows:.