Making the Health Care Connections: Who Dictates Health Care Policy in Douglas County

Another Problem with Drug Use

Ring of Fire exposes Another Problem with Drug Use & Big Pharma

Dangers of Drug Use

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6-MAYauvmwMDangers Drug Use

Off Label: Dangerous Drugs

Free Speech TV and Ring of Fire premiere Off Label tonight on Free Speech TV.  Off Label exposes the dangers of psychotropic drugs that are combined with other medications or used for unapproved or untested purposes. 

You can watch Free Speech TV on DISH ch 9415, DIRECTV ch 348, today, March 11th at 7:30 pm (mountain time) or at www.FreeSpeech.org where you can stream it live. 



 Off Label




*psychotropic or psychoactive or psychopharmaceutical drugs are chemical substances that alter mood by crossing the blood-brain barrier acting on the central nervous system.  They affect brain function and are used for a variety of reasons including mental health issues, ADHD and pain. 

UHA CAC Meeting Tonight in Roseburg

The Community Advisory Council of the Umpqua Health Alliance (UHA), will be holding the first of two public meetings to discuss what should be in our community health improvement plan.  

5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Cow Creek Office building on NE Stephens in Roseburg. 

Medford News Story: Medical middle ground between marijuana and pain pills | MailTribune.com

 Although the title calls the position of the doctors in this story as taking the middle ground between marijuana and pain pills, this is not the case.  These doctors are not educating themselves about what the middle ground is; they are just deciding it is one or the other. 

This story illustrates why people should be filing complaints against the licenses of any medical professional who does not follow science and the law regarding patients' right to choice. 

Medical middle ground between marijuana and pain pills | MailTribune.com

Housing Is a Health Care Issue!

Dateline NBC January 6, 2014 clearly shows the connection between being healthy and the condition of your housing.  

You can view Breathless starting with the following link:

Breathless

The first part shows the harm of asthma: the five remaining segments show the direct link between substandard housing and the disease.   

Although we are lucky here in Douglas County, Oregon because there are no problems in this regard with our local Public Housing Authority (PHA), HADCO, we do have such substandard rental housing throughout the county, which are usually owned by private investors.  However mold in significant in our rural Oregon community and it is not just old drafty slum housing.  The problem can actually be caused in new construction when it is not done properly.  

I personally know about one unit, owned by a local non-profit, where the local contractor who built the homes failed to provide the right ventilation for the units.  This caused too much humidity in the units leading to an on-going problem with mold growth.  After watching this program, I am more concerned that the units may have led to the development of asthma in the children living there, at least one of whom I personally know.  

Since housing is clearly a health care issue, shouldn’t our local Coordinated Care Organization, Umpqua Health Alliance (UHA) pay for housing people so they do not have to live in mice, cockroach and mold infested units because that is all the family can afford?   If they give a woman an air-conditioner to keep her out of the hospital, should they not do the same regarding healthy housing?