Opiates: “It smells like doctors being bribed to sell narcotics, and that's very disturbing”

CNN Exclusive: The more opioids doctors prescribe, the more money they make

Note: The only database CNN had access to was Medicare

Of the 200,000 doctors getting kickbacks for opiate prescriptions,

most recieved $100 to $1,000/year

Study was expanded upon by Mercola, May 2018

• Doctors Get Paid to Prescribe More Opioids

  • “One-Quarter of All Doctors Prescribe Opioids to Medicare Patients and Receive Payments From Opioid Makers”
  • “… many of the states struggling with the highest rates of overdose deaths, such as Indiana, Ohio and New Jersey, also had the most opioid-related payments to physicians”

  * Effect of Financial Incentives to Physicians, Patients, or Both on Lipid Levels JAMA RCT Nov 2015

When Doctors got $4,000/year and patients got $1,000/year the lipid levels (= target) were greatly reduced

📄 Download the PDF from VitaminDWiki

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See also VitaminDWiki

• 65% of doctors are getting cash “kickbacks” from big pharma March 2017 - paying doctors works

• Blue Cross Blue Shield pays your doctor a $40,000 bonus for fully vaccinating 100 patients under the age of 2

  • $400/fully vaccinated child - incentives to doctors appear to be needed and work

• Palliative cancer benefit of 4,000 IU of Vitamin D – less opioids, infection, and CRP – Aug 2017

• Mistreated – book by Dr. Robert Pearl - May 2017

  • "Opiate use is now the most common cause of death from injury in the US.

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Vitamin D titles containing: Opioid OR Opiate OR Morphine (10 as of Sept 2022)

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