Drugstore Drama
...they’ll argue that since the doctors wrote the prescriptions, there’s no way the pharmacists could be expected to refuse them.
Category: Thinking About Addiction
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It’s Back – GHB
Now this really sounds like what we heard from Purdue Pharma in the early days of the Oxycontin epidemic.
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Overdose Madness
By the way, if you were wondering whether the issue will be co-opted into the ongoing partisan political debate, the answer is: oh, hell yes.
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Cannabis and Crime
Incarceration can be costly, disruptive to families, and appears to do little to deter future drug use. And though people do change while incarcerated, it isn’t always for the better.
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Going Forward
Addictive substances, when widely available, tend to attract more users, rather than fewer. Is the goal to expand the number of drug users in America?
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Misinformation can be pandemic too
Will we at some point begin to see people arrive in treatment programs primarily to deal with their own harmful, possibly obsessive-compulsive relationship with social media?
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Cleaning Up the Mess
“Holy crap! What happened?” the public demands. Followed by “Who’s to blame?” Not us, insist the makers and distributors.
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A Different Kind of Hangover
“Oh great”, remarked one local official. “More people wandering around the streets or driving home with an open container in one hand.”
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An Update on Needle Exchange
The roots of opposition are on an emotional level that doesn’t readily respond to the logic of science. The danger is that the public will be persuaded and take actions that are ultimately not in their own best interests.
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A Bad Night in Minneapolis
Our alternative is to increase and lengthen our sentences for people who have serious drinking problems, and so far the Legislature hasn’t been willing to do that, and I’m not sure society wants a person — even if they have their second or third DWI — to be put in prison for 25 years.
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The Opioid Trials Continue
Instead, they seem to rely on deep pockets, sophisticated lobbying, and battalions of attorneys to absorb the penalties and minimize the damage done to those profits.
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Canadian Cannabusiness
Cannabusinesses and their investor groups are agitating for relaxation of some restrictions, particularly around opening stores in certain areas, and on advertising.
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Opioids in the News! …Again
…politics is built on compromise, and addiction is a disease that, like coronavirus, makes its own rules and insists we observe them.
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