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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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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?
by C. Scott McMillin | Dec 2, 2024 | Public Policy | 0 |
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,..
by C. Scott McMillin | Nov 7, 2024 | Public Health | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Nov 4, 2024 | Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Sep 23, 2024 | Addictive Substances, In the News | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Sep 9, 2024 | In the News | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Sep 2, 2024 | Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jul 29, 2024 | Public Health | 0 |
Some less good news: Law enforcement sees evidence of aggressive efforts by drug cartels to establish supply lines and operations within the US.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jul 11, 2024 | Thinking About Addiction | 0 |
Still, “pill mills” do continue to exist, if not in the numbers they once did. I suppose they could stage a comeback — the economics still work.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jul 4, 2024 | Public Policy | 0 |
…efforts to provide treatment for the many victims of rampant alcoholism have been relatively rare, largely volunteer efforts funded by donations rather than much in the way of government support.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Apr 11, 2024 | In the News | 0 |
Seriously, how dumb, or perhaps desperate, would a medical professional have to be to undertake something like this?
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Apr 8, 2024 | In the News | 0 |
…it’s an omen of bad times to come. Why? Because people in New Mexico’s cities are not buying enough pot.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Apr 4, 2024 | Addiction, Public Health | 0 |
ALD (alcohol-related liver disease) in the United States is projected to cost $355 billion in direct healthcare-related costs and $525 billion in lost labor and economic consumption.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Apr 1, 2024 | Public Policy | 0 |
…a number of years ago, the Institute of Medicine set forth guidelines intended to reduce the influence of advertising on how physicians prescribed medications… to date, relatively few physicians have actually adopted those guidelines.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 28, 2024 | In the News | 0 |
…the goal, as one official described it, is to “discourage unlicensed cannabis activities and to help level the playing field for legitimate businesses paying their taxes.”
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 11, 2024 | Public Policy | 0 |
Measure 110 was a classic example of a syndrome that’s plagued innovative social programs since the 1960’s and 70’s.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 7, 2024 | In the News | 0 |
I know something about how healthcare professionals are trained to manage medications, and this isn’t it.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 4, 2024 | In the News | 0 |
…they may have purchased what they believe to be cocaine, or methamphetamine, or heroin, any or all of which may have been ‘cut’ with fentanyl or another uber-potent synthetic opioid, in sufficient quantity to overcome their tolerance and put them in imminent danger of death.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Feb 26, 2024 | In the News | 0 |
A lone physician was found to have prescribed more than 500,000 doses of prescription opioids to assorted patients in little more than two years of medical practice.
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