"You represent the very best of our Nation," Biden's letter said of my work. Turned out, I still wasn't allowed in his house.

The opposite of “do no harm.”

Another reason we shouldn’t be getting health advice from the State or capitalists. The advice always, always follows dollars and violence.

See also: eggs, cigarettes, red meat, salt, petroleum, and dioxins

HIPAA only protects certain types of patients.

“Perhaps worst of all is the knowledge that this outcome was arbitrary. The decision to terminate my rights was not based upon any actualized threats to my daughters’ safety; rather, it was an automatic reaction to a timed financial incentive set at the federal level by the Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA).

Under ASFA, if states want to receive the funding that allows them to finance child protective programs, agencies must either return children home, or move to terminate parental rights once a child has been in out-of-home care for 15 of the past 22 months.”

“The average cocaine addiction lasts four years, the average marijuana addiction lasts six years, and the average alcohol addiction is resolved within 15 years. Heroin addictions tend to last as long as alcoholism, but prescription opioid problems, on average, last five years. In these large samples, which are drawn from the general population, only a quarter of people who recover have ever sought assistance in doing so (including via 12-step programs). This actually makes addictions the psychiatric disorder with the highest odds of recovery.”

When celebrities attack.