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I’m Dr. Randall Bock—physician, investigative journalist, and advocate for medical transparency. This podcast cuts through the noise of institutional dogma to explore what’s true, what’s hidden, and what matters in health care.
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Stanton Peele: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease (opens the original)
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Stanton Peele has spent more than five decades challenging the idea that addiction is best understood as a permanent brain disease. His alternative is not a denial of drugs, biology, trauma, or suffering—but a model that puts human behavior, relationships, purpose, responsibility, and the possibility of change at the center of recovery. What If Addiction […]
Methadone Treatment: Did It Kill the Cure? Percy Menzies (opens the original)
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Percy Menzies challenges the dominance of methadone-based treatment and argues that addiction medicine should give greater consideration to naltrexone, patient autonomy, outpatient care and recovery beyond long-term medication dependence.
Disability Benefits: When Support Becomes a Trap (opens the original)
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Disability benefits can provide essential stability after a mental health crisis. Matthew McWade explains how the same support can become difficult to leave—and why meaningful work, purpose, and risk can reopen the path to independence.
The Nocebo Effect: Jonathan Engler on Fear, Expectations, and Psycho-Social Engineering (opens the original)
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The Nocebo Effect: Can Fear and Negative Expectations Make Us Sicker? What happens when fear becomes part of the treatment environment? Can repeated warnings about disease, symptoms, danger, and uncertainty influence how people experience their own bodies? And where is the line between legitimate public-health communication and messaging that unintentionally—or deliberately—creates a harmful psychological environment? […]
Evidence-Based Medicine: Anil Makam on Science, Authority & Clinical Judgment (opens the original)
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Evidence-based medicine is supposed to help doctors make better decisions. But what happens when evidence becomes a slogan, peer review becomes a substitute for critical thinking, and professional authority is treated as proof? In a wide-ranging conversation about medicine, science, health policy, and the production of knowledge, physician and health-services outcomes researcher Anil Makam argues […]
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