WASHINGTON — If you’ve got questions about penis phobias, the link from goth culture to drug abuse, and how opioids are evidence of the existence of god, a top Trump appointee has answers.
Those and other subjects were touched on in a 2006 book by John Fleming, the former congressman who was just appointed by President Trump as assistant secretary for health technology at the Department of Health and Human Services.
A tea party-backed politician from Louisiana, Fleming served four terms in the House of Representatives before making an unsuccessful bid for the Senate last year. He’ll be a key person in the administration in charge of improving how physicians use technology to practice medicine.
Fleming is also a longtime doctor and in 2006 authored Preventing Addiction: What Parents Must Know To Immunize Their Kids Against Drug and Alcohol Addiction. In it he encouraged parents to closely supervise and even breathalyzer test their children. He also pushed some contested theories such as that tobacco can be a gateway drug for larger drug abuse.
