A Problem with the Evidence
Current best estimates are that only some 25 to 30 percent of us are capable of reading and understanding the content of the New York Times Science section.
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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?
by C. Scott McMillin | Dec 26, 2024 | Public Policy | 0 |
Current best estimates are that only some 25 to 30 percent of us are capable of reading and understanding the content of the New York Times Science section.
by C. Scott McMillin | Dec 16, 2024 | Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Dec 5, 2024 | Addictive Substances, Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Dec 2, 2024 | Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Nov 4, 2024 | Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Sep 2, 2024 | Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Jul 4, 2024 | Public Policy | 0 |
…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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…a number of years ago, the Institute of Medicine set forth guidelines intended to reduce the influence of advertising on how physicians prescribed medications… to date, relatively few physicians have actually adopted those guidelines.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 11, 2024 | Public Policy | 0 |
Measure 110 was a classic example of a syndrome that’s plagued innovative social programs since the 1960’s and 70’s.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jan 1, 2024 | Addiction, Public Policy | 0 |
You’d have to be blind not to see the potential for serious problems, especially when you’re talking about high school and college-age students.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Dec 25, 2023 | Public Policy | 0 |
One legislator worried that people who suffered from trauma and various social inequities needed alcohol as a form of self-medication.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Dec 14, 2023 | Addictive Substances, Public Policy | 0 |
It’s just good business. The stuff is virtually unregulated, far more affordable to make and distribute, and quite profitable, especially where conservative legislators are unlikely to legalize marijuana anytime soon.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Nov 16, 2023 | Public Policy | 0 |
When it comes to the availability of naloxone, the article states that “…while most states have decriminalized [opioid antagonists] … some, including Texas, continue to treat them as drug paraphernalia.”
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Oct 2, 2023 | Public Policy | 0 |
That was why cannabis companies set up shop in rural areas that, on the surface at least, seemed far too small to support them. They figured they wouldn’t have to.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Sep 11, 2023 | Public Policy | 0 |
Not surprisingly, people with more money kept right on drinking the way they had before, apparently unmoved by increased expense.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jun 19, 2023 | Public Policy | 0 |
Prisons, ironically, are burdened by responsibilities that once belonged to enormous, state-run psychiatric hospitals. Many of those were shut down half a century ago…
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jun 12, 2023 | In the News, Public Policy | 0 |
The so-called sober homes turned out to be dilapidated houses in and around Phoenix, offering little or nothing in the way of services and featuring plenty of drug use– even trafficking. All paid for by Medicaid, to the tune of hundreds of millions in Federal funds.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | May 25, 2023 | Public Policy | 0 |
For regular users, that suggests greater tolerance, which contributes to dependence, which means withdrawal symptoms, which usually lead the user to seek still stronger forms of the drug.
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