Shaw's Eco-Logic

This HND piece examines the matter of chronic pain, and then focuses on the government's ill-advised scorched earth campaign against opioids.  Unfortunately, thousands of chronic pain patients are suffering because they cannot obtain therapeutic doses of these drugs.  What's worse is that bogus experts--with considerable influence--are pushing this policy.

These charlatans, under the name of PROP, attack opioid pain meds on a daily basis, and it's only now coming out that they are being handsomely paid by plaintiff's lawyers.  What a shock!  A government policy with "unintended" consequences that actually benefits consultants, politicians, and greedy attorneys.  We've never seen that before.

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This HND piece takes a historical perspective on how government-run healthcare programs can go bad. We start with how von Bismarck's 1881 Health Insurance Law was fine, until bureaucrats made sure that the docs knew who was in charge. And, when the money started becoming more scarce after World War I, cost benefit analysis morphed quite readily into Social Darwinism and eugenics.

Somehow, many physicians joined the ranks of the Nazis, with Mengele being the worst but not the only bad one, and horrific abuses became the order of the day. We examine how this sort of behavior persists to this day.

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This HND piece offers plenty of tips on how to keep your family safe, culled from a variety of good sources. We include a number of interesting links. You might like the examples of old and new "shock" safe driving productions.

Then we get into the matter of emergency communications, and how GPS trackers can keep you informed of the whereabouts and welfare of your loved ones in critical times. To this end, we introduce a new product that needs no other network to cover a range of six miles, with off-grid texting included.

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This HND piece begins by exploring our love/hate relationship with Big Pharma. On the one hand, Pharma is THE most hated industry in the US, but on the other hand, millions of people enjoy better and longer lives by taking pharmaceutical drugs.

We give the example of FDR, who was relegated to being a walking dead man, enduring extreme hypertension—which eventually killed him— in an era in which today's common blood pressure meds did not exist. Likewise, type 2 diabetes sufferers decades ago had only insulin as a therapy, and no easy way to determine an accurate blood glucose level.

We then spotlight a product designed to prevent you for misplacing or losing your meds, when on-the-go.

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This HND piece discusses how healthcare products are marketed, both to healthcare professionals and direct to the consumer. We first introduce the immense size of this market, which is valued at a staggering $1.5 trillion.

As you might imagine, pharmaceutical drugs comprise 10 percent of that—the biggest single sector. But even those smaller sectors, which make up "only" 2 percent of this market still account for a huge amount of business. Thus, a fortune is spent on advertising, with marketers vitally interested in what campaigns are really working. To that end, we highlight a powerful new tool.

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