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?
...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.
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.
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Not surprisingly, people with more money kept right on drinking the way they had before, apparently unmoved by increased expense.
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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…
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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.
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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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Everyone involved seems to expect further charges to emerge, against other defendants for similar activities involving the sale of political influence.
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…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.
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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.
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…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.
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Those restrictions existed to inhibit people’s tendencies to abuse alcohol. In their absence, problems related to excessive drinking increased, substantially.
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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.
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