And she still cannot match "addiction" to "disease"!
All that "Education", and she still cannot match "Addiction" to the definition of "Disease" taught in accredited American medical universities! And what state is she a licensed M. D. In?
Can she even give an md order for a brain scan, or write a prescription? Nice "Academic" credentials-but until she can articulate how "Addiction" matches "Disease" criteria, she is dumber than shit you are full of, and probably smoking as well!
You lose addict! As I am sure you have done your entire life! Don't forget-for you, suicide is an option! It will be the only thing you have ever been successful at!
[QUOTE=Admin2;6429856]Her psychiatric residency was at New York University, where she earned a Laughlin Fellowship from The American College of Psychiatrists as one of 10 outstanding psychiatric residents in the United States.
Much of her professional career was spent at the Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, where she held several leadership positions including Director of Nuclear Medicine, Chairman of the Medical Department, and Associate Laboratory Director for Life Sciences. Dr. Volkow was also a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Associate Dean of the Medical School at The State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Dr. Volkow has published more than 800 peer-reviewed articles, written more than 100 book chapters, manuscripts and articles, co-edited "Neuroscience in the 21st Century" and edited four books on brain imaging for mental and substance use disorders..[/QUOTE]
Let's see the PROVED CONNECTION!
Quick: Post some of the "scientific research" that gives the DEFINITION OF ADDICTION, that is taught in ANY accredited medical school in the USA. Now try SHOWING in all that "vast scientific research" -and a "disease-based definition" that CONNECTS "addiction" (and all that "vast scientific research") TO "disease". I can't even find a LICENSED AMERICAN M. D. (that CAN actually write prescriptions, and order brains scans that can do this! (Nora Valkow sure as hell can't!) Saying something over and over is a "disease" does NOT make it so, anymore then saying over and over that there is a "god" (for 2,000 years now somehow "proves" that there is one!
It's 2023-not 1939. Saying something is a "disease" without PROVING IT does NOT make it such!
[QUOTE=Admin2;6434062]If the sun is shining and you keep telling people over and over that it's dark outside does that mean there is no light?
There is a VAST amount of scientific literature saying it is. I showed you some, you ignored it in your response. There are literally MILLIONS of medical practitioners that would say you are wrong, there are millions more recovering alcoholics and addicts that say you're wrong but we will just go with your story.
You can keep writing but you are convincing more people that I am correct than I am.
Here's hoping you exercise your option.
A2.[/QUOTE]
IfNor Valkow was a real MD, she would have an American license to practice!
[QUOTE=MongJuanSilver;6433612]Jesus, he's told someone (an Admin at that) to off themselves because he can't wrap his head around the concept that doctors can and do exist outside of the US, and surprisingly enough, some if not most of them are better than their "American educated" counterparts. Is there an ignore function, and the troll (at least I hope to God he's trolling) get the boot?[/QUOTE]You would think that an "M. D. " (even one of foreign-birth), who is head of a USA Government agency would at least have some American medical credentials for such-like an M. D. License, or a DEA license. Nora Valkow has neither! As a research SCIENTIST (she does not rate the term "M. D. " she has done lots of "research". But until she, or ANY AMERICAN LICENSED M. D, can make the connection between "disease" (and addiction), she is talking out of her foreiign-born, fake medical credentialed ass!
That is Right Thing to Do
[QUOTE=Admin2;6434055]What I write isn't for him. Its for anybody who might think he makes sense.[/QUOTE]When Morons spout their garbage, it is important someone speaks up with facts and intelligence as A2 is doing.
Unfortunately Morons attract morons who latch on and repeat what moron's say. It's good when someone sets the record strait with common sense, intelligence, facts, and logic.
Even thought the morons won't get it, those who might be inclined to pay attention to the morons get the truth to digest and hopefully recognizes what is correct.
A2 is correct in all accounts.
Where is "A2's" PROOF?
[QUOTE=MaximusKahn;6436833]When Morons spout their garbage, it is important someone speaks up with facts and intelligence as A2 is doing.
Unfortunately Morons attract morons who latch on and repeat what moron's say. It's good when someone sets the record strait with common sense, intelligence, facts, and logic.
Even thought the morons won't get it, those who might be inclined to pay attention to the morons get the truth to digest and hopefully recognizes what is correct.
A2 is correct in all accounts.[/QUOTE]And WHERE EXACTLY IS "A2's" (or any other "addiction-is-a-disease" advocate's), PROOF? The PROOF should not be THAT FUCKING HARD. Just show the MATCH between the definition of "disease" that gets taught in ANY and ALL ACCREDITED MEDICAL UNIVERSITIES, and show how this thing called "addiction" meets "disease" definition! EASY PEASY! I have worked in the "addiction treatment field" for over 21 years. Have not seen it yet! Not from local M. D. 's, or accredited medical universities, or that fake-ass M. D. Nora Valkow (and the NIDA agency she is head of! Nor ASAM, nor anyone who has won the Nobel Prize in Medicine. Maybe A2 is tracking down the "vast scinetific literature" to post that he claims exists, and therefore shows this connection. I doubt it though. ADDICTION IS A FUCKING CHOICE! Whether to a liquid, solid, gas, or activity! It is a FUCKING CHOICE IN EVERY SINGLE INSTANCE! There is NOT ONE INSTANCE of a person having ANY "addiction" involuntarily thrust upon them! No addict has ever been forced into becoming or remaining an addict BY THE DRUG, OR THE ACTIVITY! NOT ONCE! And all I want to see is some PROOF of this "disease-addiction" connection!
Still haven't seen it. Because it does not exist! Period!
