“Reporters love rapid detox”

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James Hubbard, M.D., M.P.H., on October 22nd, 2008 at 4:30 pm Said:

Great analysis. Thanks for exposing the facts.
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Ed Runci, on October 16th, 2008 at 10:41 pm Said:

The Columbia study is three years old. It did not even look at Dr. Alan David Kaye’s Ultra Rapid Detox Center at Texas Tech Health Sciences Center. Dr. Kaye was Chairman of Anesthesiology and Director of the Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program in Interventional Pain Management. He’s a member of the Texas Tech HSC Anesthesia Hall of Fame,.

Dr. Alan David Kaye (MD, PhD, DABPM) is now Head of Anesthesiology at LSU School of Medicine, New Orleans, and Chief of Anesthesiology at three fully accredited hospitals. He’s a Tenured Professor of Anesthesiology and a Professor of Pharmacology. He was named a Consumer Research Doctor of the Year in Anesthesiology and Interventional Pain Management for 2006-2007. He’s a praticing physician, Head of a Medical School Anesthesiology Department, Chief of Anesthesiology, Research Scientist and Scholar. He’s published more than 500 Articles, Abstracts and Text Book Chapters. He won the Arizona State Rhodes Scholar Competition, and was the Western Region National Rhodes Scholar Competition Runner-up.

He is the Inventor the Kaye Method of Ultra Rapid Detox, and the Medical Director of the Kaye Clinic for Ultra Rapid Detox at Ochsner Medical Center - Kenner Louisiana. He’s been successfully performing The Kaye Method Ultra Rapid Detox procedures in a hospital Intensive Care Unit since 2000, has a 100% success rate, has NEVER had an adverse incident, and has published articles based on his research and practice in prestigious peer-reviewed Medical Journals.

It’s time to stop looking backwards at old data, and to start looking forward at real facts and the results of actual practice by true experts in the field. If you want the REAL facts about Ultra Rapid Detox, you can come meet Dr. Kaye, email him or speak directly with him by phone. Contact me (Ed Runci) at http://www.kayerapiddetox.com, and I’ll personally arrange any of the above.
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Trevor Butterworth, on October 29th, 2008 at 5:26 pm Said:

This is a response from writer Maia Saliva:

In searching Med-line, I find two articles by Kaye on rapid detox. One was a review– which claimed that opioid detox can be fatal without anesthesia, a claim that is supported by data– and was done *before* the JAMA article appeared. The other made claims about rapid detox being safe and effective, and a randomized controlled trial and was followed up by an editorial note “Editorial expression of concern regarding: Kaye AD, Banister RE, Hoover JM, et al. Chronic pain and ultra-rapid opioid detoxification. Pain Practice 2005;5(1):33-42.”

It’s nice to have qualifications but qualifications do not trump data and given that he doesn’t seem to have any published peer-reviewed controlled data comparing level of withdrawal symptoms following his detox to level of withdrawal symptoms following safer alternatives, I remain convinced that rapid detox has advantages over other detoxes. The key advantage is supposed to be patient comfort: if they can’t even prove that– which JAMA debunked pretty conclusively– all other points are moot. No controlled trial has found advantages in long-term recovery, so why add the risk?