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Measure 110 was a classic example of a syndrome that’s plagued innovative social programs since the 1960's and 70's.
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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 | 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.
by C. Scott McMillin | Jan 1, 2024 | Addiction, Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Dec 25, 2023 | Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Dec 14, 2023 | Addictive Substances, Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Nov 16, 2023 | Public Policy | 0 |
by C. Scott McMillin | Oct 2, 2023 | Public Policy | 0 |
by 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.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | May 1, 2023 | In the News, Public Policy | 0 |
Everyone involved seems to expect further charges to emerge, against other defendants for similar activities involving the sale of political influence.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Apr 6, 2023 | Public Policy | 0 |
…simply by lowering the standard BAC from .08 to .05, we could save an estimated 1500 lost lives every year. Not to mention approximately $121 billion in associated medical, legal, property, and productivity costs.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Mar 13, 2023 | Public Policy | 0 |
Because such approaches may not aim to get people off drugs – in some ways, it’s an acknowledgment that they probably won’t, regardless of our efforts – such programs can face opposition.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Feb 9, 2023 | Public Policy | 0 |
…the subject of those who suffer from Cannabis Use Disorders (CUDs) rarely comes up in discussions. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised, given how seldom firms that make and market liquor and cigarettes ever mention alcoholism or nicotine dependence.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Feb 6, 2023 | Public Policy | 0 |
Those restrictions existed to inhibit people’s tendencies to abuse alcohol. In their absence, problems related to excessive drinking increased, substantially.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Jan 30, 2023 | Addictive Substances, Public Policy | 0 |
One marketing expert explained this in my hearing, some years ago. He said that a product like cigarettes, that the customer literally can’t quit using without considerable discomfort– well, those are the best earners.
Read Moreby C. Scott McMillin | Dec 8, 2022 | Public Policy | 0 |
…these guidelines contain many best practices that, had they been in place in the 1990’s, and enough prescribers had followed them, we might well have avoided the worst of the prescription painkiller epidemic
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