Sad Circle
An athlete with a gambling problem goes into deep debt, can’t possibly pay it off. Solution: borrow even more money, adding a second debt to what remains of the first.
Category: Thinking About Addiction
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An Unusual Way to Die
I keep waiting for the intrepid detective to show up and take charge, solve the mystery.
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Those Troubling OD Statistics
In recent months, samples have been found with as much as 20% fentanyl content. It’s easy to see how this could increase both the total number of overdoses, and the percentage of victims who did not survive.
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Kid-Friendly Pot
I couldn’t find any evidence of consequences suffered by the pot peddlers, so can only assume there weren’t many. And it does look as if they’re still making the same products in the same packages.
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FDA and the Zynners
Same applies to tobacco smoking. It’ll be difficult to think of something that isn’t safer.
Gun play, perhaps.
The Pot Patrol
Will the illicit black market finally disappear, to be replaced by a happy, productive, extremely profitable vision of Big Pot?
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The Bigger Fish
I’d hate to think that one of the “benefits” from preserving those investigations was a chance for glory, free publicity and career advancement for the investigators.
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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.
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Big Pot Meets Big Labor
This might be a good opportunity for a closer look at exactly how wealthy and established the industry has become
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New Money or Not?
It turns out that the funds in question had previously been delayed, for months… now to be released late.
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This isn’t an emergency?
…a drug that kills nearly 500 Americans every day, and causes more deaths in a typical year than every infectious disease combined. It is manufactured abroad and domestically, then sold by powerful multinational organizations with a vast network of distributors
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Bad Days in Baltimore
At the same time, people do keep overdosing and dying, apparently in record numbers.
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Alcohol Study Suppressed
As it turns out, the alcohol industry— the people who make and distribute and sell alcoholic beverages to the public— strongly objected.
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