Call It Cancer

Just call it “treatment”

Although many in the addiction treatment field use the term "medication-assisted treatment" to describe a combination of pharmacotherapy and counseling to address substance dependence, research has demonstrated that opioid agonist treatment alone is effective in patients with opioid dependence, regardless of whether they receive counseling. The time has come to call pharmacotherapy for such pat...

Youth violence? Let's call it what it is.

he headline re a d s , “ S chool Ya rd Assassins Gun Down 13 in Littleton, Colorado.” And everyone asks, “What turns kids into killers?” This is a compelling question. But it is the wrong question. Who are these kids? A “14-year-old shooter” in Paducah. Two “middle-school youth” in Jonesboro. An “expelled student” in Springfield. An “honor student” in Fayetteville. A “sophomore” in Pearl. These...

Epidemiology--is it time to call it a day?

Chlorthalidone: don't call it "thiazide-like" anymore.

Recently, there has been growing interest in the idea that chlorthalidone should be preferred over thiazides when it comes to selecting a nonloop diuretic for treatment of hypertension.1–4 Depending on how these drugs are dosed, it is believed that the nonthiazide diuretic chlorthalidone might provide greater cardiovascular protection than thiazide diuretics because of its more potent and prolo...

Let ’ s call it Nonlocal Quantum Physics

In the following we undertake to derive quantum theory as a stochastic low-energy and coarse-grained theory from a more primordial discrete and basically geometric theory living on the Planck scale and which (as we argue) possibly underlies also string theory. We isolate the so-called ideal elements which represent at the same time the cornerstones of the framework of ordinary quantum theory an...