A Problem with the Evidence
Current best estimates are that only some 25 to 30 percent of us are capable of reading and understanding the content of the New York Times Science section.
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Author: C. Scott McMillin
Cannabis as Commerce
…we made a popular drug of abuse legal, widely available in shops and online, and proceed to market the heck out of it– did we really think that the number of users would go down?
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Safer Supply?
…it appears that a significant percent of the opioid medication is being diverted– for resale on the street, probably, or swapped for the illicit stuff.
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Now Where?
Right now, and very recently, the curve of overdoses has sloped downward. It’s the first real decline we’ve seen in a long time.
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Those Pesky Control Strategies
…(a) common tactic is to swear off alcohol entirely for the duration of the Holiday season. Then, having ‘proved’ to oneself (and, hopefully, to others) that you can abstain, you promptly go right back to drinking.
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