One County, Two Big Problems
It turns out that the local Mennonite community in Seminole has also been a regular stop on a drug smuggling route that runs from northern Mexico all the way to Canada. The smugglers: Yep, other Mennonites.
Category: Thinking About Addiction
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Labels & Screening
(per the Surgeon General), “…alcohol directly contributes to 100,000 cancer cases and 20,000 related deaths each year…”
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Sports Gambling — A Chip Off the Old Block
If they showed the losers– vast hordes of them– it would almost certainly discourage people from placing a bet.
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A really good idea
Big Tobacco, however, will not agree. They’ll put up the usual resistance, lobbying Congress, filing lawsuits, etc., and over the years, they’ve become quite good at it.
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Legislating Addiction
…the commercial gambling industry is dead-set against it. In fact, they’d like to eliminate the gambling tax altogether, on the grounds that it disadvantages them against illicit gambling operations.
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A World on Speed
…it’s possible that one or more of the other major players in the region would attempt to take over.
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Waterbound?
…drugs, being so ridiculously easy to conceal, are a perennial favorite for any sort of smuggling operation.
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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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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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More on Pot in Politics
Nonetheless, the commercial cannabis industry expects a demonstration of that level of support from the public to motivate the Florida legislature to revisit the issue,..
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Gambling — A Public Health Issue?
…because gambling is now an industry with vast resources and a huge political presence, we can expect… significant resistance from those quarters.
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