Category: Public Health

Epidemiology, mortality, prevention, public investment and costs vs. benefits. When it comes to public health, addiction ticks all the boxes.

Public Health

A Closer Look at Overdose

by C. Scott McMillin | Oct 20, 2025 | Public Health | 0 |

All this time and money spent on sophisticated technology and systems to track patterns in use, and scientists are still forced to rely on data that’s six months out of date?

An Uptick in Teen Suicide

by C. Scott McMillin | Oct 9, 2025 | Public Health | 0 |
OMG- A Conspiracy?

by C. Scott McMillin | Sep 11, 2025 | Public Health | 0 |
That Myth About Wine

by C. Scott McMillin | Sep 8, 2025 | Public Health | 0 |
OD Epidemic Nearing an End?

by C. Scott McMillin | May 19, 2025 | Public Health | 0 |
Detection Dilemma

by C. Scott McMillin | Mar 31, 2025 | Public Health | 0 |

Labels & Screening

by C. Scott McMillin | Jan 30, 2025 | Public Health | 0 |

(per the Surgeon General), “…alcohol directly contributes to 100,000 cancer cases and 20,000 related deaths each year…”

Gambling — A Public Health Issue?

by C. Scott McMillin | Nov 7, 2024 | Public Health | 0 |

…because gambling is now an industry with vast resources and a huge political presence, we can expect… significant resistance from those quarters.

Good News on the Overdose Front

by C. Scott McMillin | Jul 29, 2024 | Public Health | 0 |

Some less good news: Law enforcement sees evidence of aggressive efforts by drug cartels to establish supply lines and operations within the US.

The Bill Comes Due

by C. Scott McMillin | Apr 4, 2024 | Addiction, Public Health | 0 |

ALD (alcohol-related liver disease) in the United States is projected to cost $355 billion in direct healthcare-related costs and $525 billion in lost labor and economic consumption.

Be Careful Where You Work?

by C. Scott McMillin | Nov 2, 2023 | Public Health | 0 |

CDC claims that 1 in 5 drug overdoses in 2020 – or 20% — involved people in those two sectors alone. Something to think about.

Now what do we do about fentanyl?

by C. Scott McMillin | Feb 2, 2023 | Addictive Substances, Public Health | 0 |

…much of the fentanyl in circulation is in the form of an additive to some other drug– cocaine, for instance, or methamphetamine, or one of the many sedatives.

When Doctors Disinform

by C. Scott McMillin | Jul 14, 2022 | Public Health | 0 |

…what would be a physician’s motive for intentionally spreading bad information? Greed, perhaps. Maybe in hopes of boosting sales from which they ultimately expect to benefit

The Meth Mess – P2P

by C. Scott McMillin | May 23, 2022 | Public Health | 0 |

P2P meth seemed to accelerate the curve of meth addiction, so that the user deteriorated far more quickly than in the past. And suffered worse consequences – in particular, a kind of extreme mental toxicity