A Plan Worth Reviving
...even today, smoking is credited with contributing to more than 480,000 deaths in the US every year. By comparison, alcohol is given credit for 178,000 fatalities. And all illicit drugs combined, 70,000.
Category: Thinking About Addiction
Investments, costs, regulations, laws, courts and prisons– what helps? What’s useless or worse- harmful? What’s the cost to the taxpayer? And the economy? And the families? And, oh, yes… the people suffering from addictive disease?
Thinking About Addiction
Latest
Welcome to EVALI
…somewhere in the neighborhood of 2500 EVALI cases to date, 50 of which resulted in fatalities.
Read More
Fool Me, Please
…a chatbot doesn’t actually feel anything for the user. It’s simply doing what it was programmed to do. Principally, that’s serving as a perfect mirror.
Read More
86 that, will ya?
Anyway, “86ing” involved nothing more than a firm instruction to beat feet, and shut the door behind you.
Read More
A Most Unsatisfactory Ending
A Purdue lawyer said most of the lawsuits against the company over opioids did not include specific financial claims. But the ones in those that did totalled over $40tn in damages.
Read More
A New Czar at ONDCP
…newly appointed Drug Czar is Sara Carter, a 45 year-old investigative journalist best known for her reporting on the US-Mexico border, and her appearances as a contributor on the Fox News Network
Read More
A Big Bet on an Uncertain Future
…simply relocating a common human and societal problem online is only going to expand its scope, and with that, the sheer number of problems it will inevitably create.
Read More
Numbers Game
“Significantly lesser quantities of drugs are smuggled directly into the United States by traffickers using maritime conveyances than by traffickers using overland routes.”
Read More
A DUI Breakthrough?
…an estimated three out of four pot-positive DUI offenders were also positive for alcohol or other drugs when arrested.
Read More
Another Round with Ibogaine
Apparently, some of the more level headed members of the medical community are already expressing concern about the possibility that, because of the aforementioned “national priorities”, psychedelics will avoid the usual scrutiny from experts.
Read More
Drunk Driving in Rural America
Most interesting were the environmental and legal factors that influenced drunk driving. The young adults identified these as “minimal police presence, sparse population, and lack of alternative transportation”
Read More
Commercial Determinants of Health
In the neverending hunt for financial rewards, poor consumer health can be viewed as collateral damage.
Read More
She does have a point…
I don’t see how any nation, let alone the United States, can hope to have real impact on the country’s drug problems without committing to a coordinated plan of action, and then sticking with it.
Read More