There are certainly addictions and other factors that lead to a reliance, which can be viewed as addiction unless we know the holistic view of an individual. Very interesting!
Transparency is so critical and if blocked, accurate information would be unknown, and that is not good in the eye of the public when being informed is important.
With the use of medicines and treatments, questions for pharmacists and pharmaceutical companies are directed more and more, so having informative campaigns from them will only help people understand chronic conditions better and the use of medicines, which can be a complicated task.
Very interesting study. I do wonder how the results would be if the study was extended to other sites besides the two listed and by the types of occupations.
It is important for chronic diseases especially cancer have interventions in which to educate and address negative beliefs or preconceived notions and that can provide better outlooks and hopefully an improved prognosis with positive behaviors.
I do wonder how big of an impact this had made on HIV rates and widely used the therapy is since this was published. I can imagine how big this was at the time.
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