This extraordinary interview with Richard Lawhern examines the current "opiate crisis" in a new light.  The real crisis is what we are doing to patients by limiting or eliminating their prescribed pain medications.  The new CDC policies are causing pain, suffering, the desperate resort to illegal drugs, and death.  Lawhern's  brilliant and honest analysis sheds light on how the CDC is a power-grabbing institution that is exceeding its legal power by issuing orders intended to control the prescribing of medications by American doctors.   My own additional take on this:  Never trust the CDC.  When politicians and media tell you that the CDC stands for science and we must listen to their science, they are leading you down a treacherous path, much as they have also done with COVID-19.   It's all about their power over us, not what is truly scientific, good for us, or consistent with individual freedom and the practice of medicine.   A very important hour for everyone in America.

A great whistleblower.  Kristina Borjesson is one of the most remarkable journalists of our time, involved at the highest level as a writer, TV producer, and filmmaker.  She is proud to be the only journalist blackballed by three TV networks and she tells these stories in a way you will never forget.  She provides a true insider’s view of corruption in the major media and the life of a journalistic truthteller.   She wrote, directed, and coproduced the film TWA Flight 800 about the US  airliner that was shot out of the sky.  The film does not to take a position on who fired the missiles, but many others have suspected it was our own navy on maneuvers.  She has also been researching the coronavirus coverups which we examine toward the end of her amazing hour with me.   

Check out Kristina's podcast The Whistleblower Newsroom 

My guest Matt Strauss, MD, an intensive care doctor, represents all that is good about being a physician.  He cares about his patients, about the ethic to “First, do no harm,” about science, and about the need to control in ourselves the potential for arrogance that afflicts all of us physicians.  He is also brilliant and articulate.  Do not miss this hour in which he shares his experience with COVID-19 and his analysis of the medical and social issues surrounding it.  For me personally, it was a great hour.