The Ativan Story

The world’s biggest and most damaging addiction problem doesn’t involve heroin or cocaine or painkillers. It involves benzodiazepine tranquillisers such as lorazepam (also known as Ativan).

The benzodiazepine scandal has existed for over 50 years now. No one has been …

Poverty and Death

As the world races towards poverty it is vital to remember that poverty and death are inextricably linked.

In Africa and Asia, there are hundreds of millions of people dying because recent events – particularly the sanctions against Russia – …

Mammograms

For decades now, just about every attempt to show that medical screening programmes save lives has proved that they are a waste of time, energy and money. Indeed, surveys have proved that, because of the risk of false positives, medical …