A Patch for Prevention?
I can imagine some users — not all, but more than a few — will make use of the patch to facilitate further unaccompanied fentanyl use, confident now that they won’t inadvertently overdose. And being surprised when they did.
Category: Thinking About Addiction
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FDA and the Zynners
Same applies to tobacco smoking. It’ll be difficult to think of something that isn’t safer.
Gun play, perhaps.
The Pot Patrol
Will the illicit black market finally disappear, to be replaced by a happy, productive, extremely profitable vision of Big Pot?
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The Bigger Fish
I’d hate to think that one of the “benefits” from preserving those investigations was a chance for glory, free publicity and career advancement for the investigators.
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A Plan Worth Reviving
…even today, smoking is credited with contributing to more than 480,000 deaths in the US every year. By comparison, alcohol is given credit for 178,000 fatalities. And all illicit drugs combined, 70,000.
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Big Pot Meets Big Labor
This might be a good opportunity for a closer look at exactly how wealthy and established the industry has become
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New Money or Not?
It turns out that the funds in question had previously been delayed, for months… now to be released late.
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This isn’t an emergency?
…a drug that kills nearly 500 Americans every day, and causes more deaths in a typical year than every infectious disease combined. It is manufactured abroad and domestically, then sold by powerful multinational organizations with a vast network of distributors
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Bad Days in Baltimore
At the same time, people do keep overdosing and dying, apparently in record numbers.
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Alcohol Study Suppressed
As it turns out, the alcohol industry— the people who make and distribute and sell alcoholic beverages to the public— strongly objected.
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Welcome to EVALI
…somewhere in the neighborhood of 2500 EVALI cases to date, 50 of which resulted in fatalities.
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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.
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86 that, will ya?
Anyway, “86ing” involved nothing more than a firm instruction to beat feet, and shut the door behind you.
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