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.”
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Is There An Alcoholic Personality?
An older person, usually a man, calling people in the middle of the night in order to rant drunkenly about his various complaints and resentments.
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A War on Who?
It struck me as a similar sort of small time, low-profile operation that would attract ordinary people hoping for a rare payday.
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Bupe or Bust
It wasn’t long, however, before we realized that the relapse rates from detoxification using Suboxone were quite high, with drug use often resuming on the day of discharge.
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In Luxury’s Lap, with lorazepam
I doubt the Pharma firm that makes and markets lorazepam could’ve hoped for a better ad for its product.
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A near-catastrophe, featuring psilocybin
…it’s a fairly typical example of delusional thinking. Incredibly dangerous when the person with psychosis is flying an airplane.
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The Skaggs Case – an update
Would it be reasonable to expect an employer to recognize when their employee was engaged in conduct such as Kay’s? Or was that outside of their role as employer, and their responsibility for his actions?
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Those Pesky Narcosubs
…surviving an ocean voyage in these vehicles is far from guaranteed. And if the sub sinks, the cargo sinks with it.
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Drugged Driving: an update
One thing is completely clear: Cannabis use does contribute to driver impairment, and increases risk for accidents and fatalities.
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The Scottish Problem
As for treatment, the best estimate I could find was that 40% of Scotland’s chronic drug users were enrolled in programs, as opposed to 60% in England.
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Will It Ever End?
…he had become a prime target for exploitation by some truly awful people.
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A drug test hits the headlines…
…simply holding up a sheet of paper with numbers purporting to be the results of a drug test, may possibly be the least reliable way to demonstrate continuing abstinence from drug use.
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Where is that street, anyway?
Something that would never happen in reality. So why pretend it does, just for effect?
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