In the light of the outcry of the high pill burden, severe toxicity and high treatment non-adherence rates, and many more challenges associated with the treatment of TB, in particular of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), innovative drug therapies are beginning to be explored. One of them - inhaled TB drugs - were presented at the 46th Union World Conference on Lung Health held recently in Cape Town.
We continue our conversation about Gregg's book, the Nature and Nurture of passion. We discuss taking risks, freelancing, writing, the NEED for failure, reframing for deepening passion.
In the case of the Palestinians who are under occupation, Israel is treating them as objects rather than persons who can rationally consent to the way they are being treated. Israel is coercing the Palestinians physically and psychologically by denying them human rights, through, for example, administrative detention, night raids, and expulsion, thereby robbing them of their dignity and denying them their autonomy.
This article speaks to psychopathology in corporate behavior in relationship to care for the elderly. It speaks to the author's personal experience while also reflecting on what we as a people need to to do get out from under corporate rule. Ready for change? Let this be a beginning. Or perhaps you are in the middle? At any rate, "Know thyself" by asking "what kind of world you would like upon becoming elderly?
Primary prevention is all the things we can do to forestall or eliminate exposure to addictive substances. It is our best hope for solving America's drug problems. But primary prevention is under appreciated and under-funded, especially when a community comes to realize there is a crisis. Once the problem become an epidemic, attention usually focuses on law-enforcement interdiction of drugs and treatment, not prevention.