Alan Cassels
Author
Alan Cassels is a Brownstone fellow and a drug policy researcher and author who has written extensively about disease mongering. He is the author of four books, including “The ABCs of Disease Mongering: An Epidemic in 26 Letters.”
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LATEST
Fight the Deadly Opioid Epidemic at Its Roots
We are in the midst of a deadly drug epidemic so severe and widespread that few people in North America will remain untouched by it.
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Now There’s Proof for the ‘Angelina Jolie Effect’
Up to this point, it had only been a hypothesis: that celebrity firepower can definitively drive consumer health behaviour in a certain direction. The case here concerns whether women wish to embark on a genetic hunting expedition to see if they are at “high risk” of developing a particular disease such as breast cancer, and the motivator in this case is Angelina Jolie.
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