The Vape Ban That Wasn’t
Corporations will fight dirty if necessary to protect their investment. That includes in the political arena.
Category: Public Policy
Alcohol may be the oldest. New ones are being invented every day. There are thousands, and keeping track of what they are and what they do isn’t easy.
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Drugs and the Homeless
…the problems we decide not to deal with at present go on to undermine treatment for the rest.
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Demand and Supply
Picture a horde of lemmings suddenly deciding to change direction and stampede off a different cliff.
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Addiction and “Medicare for All”
I’d argue that America has never adequately addressed its own problems with addiction, which have been with us in one form or another since before we became a nation.
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Prohibition Paradox
Alcohol still gets credit for close to 90,000 deaths every year– more than other drugs, even in the middle of an epidemic.
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Mission Not Accomplished
It’s a real challenge for the folks on the ground to fit their reality into the prescribed format of a Federal grant.
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Another Day, Another Opioid Lawsuit
Meanwhile , the healthcare field continues to struggle with legitimate issues around the use of (and controls over) opioids in medical practice.
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Raising the Tobacco Age Limit
So, public health advocates maintain, the McConnell plan is really just a clever ruse to reduce support for other legislation that might actually reduce smoking and vaping.
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Proposing a Plan
This is in part a course correction from the trend of several decades ago, when the emphasis was on cutting expenses in the naive belief all addicts could be successfully treated on an outpatient basis.
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Coercion in Massachusetts
I compare it to finding someone lying on the sidewalk, helping them up, brushing them off, and pushing them down again.
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Treatment and Coercion
Those of us who work in treatment quickly sense a problem: people with addictions aren’t likely to respond to this approach.
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Edible Alert
…despite the rapid growth in new cases, the number still doesn’t equal alcohol.
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The New Herbalists
Unbeknownst to the patient, the CBD products they also use could affect how well those prescribed medicines work, or interact with them in unhelpful ways.
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