Fool Me, Please
...a chatbot doesn’t actually feel anything for the user. It’s simply doing what it was programmed to do. Principally, that’s serving as a perfect mirror.
Category: Thinking About Addiction
One of the oldest diseases in the world, and we still don’t know as much as we should about its causes, effects, and how to treat it- much less cure it. What we do know, and what we’re learning, ends up here:
Thinking About Addiction
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A DUI Breakthrough?
…an estimated three out of four pot-positive DUI offenders were also positive for alcohol or other drugs when arrested.
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Another Round with Ibogaine
Apparently, some of the more level headed members of the medical community are already expressing concern about the possibility that, because of the aforementioned “national priorities”, psychedelics will avoid the usual scrutiny from experts.
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Drunk Driving in Rural America
Most interesting were the environmental and legal factors that influenced drunk driving. The young adults identified these as “minimal police presence, sparse population, and lack of alternative transportation”
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Commercial Determinants of Health
In the neverending hunt for financial rewards, poor consumer health can be viewed as collateral damage.
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She does have a point…
I don’t see how any nation, let alone the United States, can hope to have real impact on the country’s drug problems without committing to a coordinated plan of action, and then sticking with it.
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FDA favors flavors
…a substantial majority of electronic cigarettes sold in America are actually illegal
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60 Years of “Warspeak”
…a former US Senator took the time to explain to me that framing certain problems as a war rather than, say, a public health issue, made it much easier to marshal public support and (hopefully) a lot of funding.
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Across State Lines
I have little confidence in the ability (or willingness) of Internet companies to determine if a prospective purchaser is underage.
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Is Social Media Addictive?
It would be difficult for the defense to argue that this isn’t done intentionally, for the purpose of keeping patrons coming back for more. And more, and more.
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DWI “Scam”-dal
It’s an incredibly dishonest way for officers of the court to behave, and I imagine those hearing or reading the story now are having some difficulty understanding how they managed to get away with it for as long as they did.
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No More Drink Limits
It’s ironic these revised recommendations were issued in 2026, since the last few years have seen an abundance of findings as to the serious health consequences of drinking– including various cancers
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A System Transformed
Beginning around the year 2000, incarceration of juveniles has declined by almost 75%, from a peak population of more than 10o,000, to somewhere less than one-third that number.
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