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.
Category: Thinking About Addiction
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?
Thinking About Addiction
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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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Arc of the Pendulum
Instead, our habit has been to rush head first in one direction, then reverse and rush back the opposite way
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Some Downward Progress
Many older folks turn to cannabis to self-medicate the pain and sleep problems that can plague old age. As they become dependent on cannabis, we could see the emergence of more health-related problems there.
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Odds & Ends from Research
And according to the researchers, (SGB) seems to have a positive impact on other problems that co-occur with PTSD– anxiety, depression, alcohol consumption.
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Mean Green
At this point in the US, there are allegedly a couple of hundred thousand people who would reasonably qualify as ketamine-addicted.
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Good News on the Overdose Front
Some less good news: Law enforcement sees evidence of aggressive efforts by drug cartels to establish supply lines and operations within the US.
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An MD takes on the DEA
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.
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Another Country Tries Prohibition
…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.
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More Bad Medicine
Seriously, how dumb, or perhaps desperate, would a medical professional have to be to undertake something like this?
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