A Revolutionary Plan
Not surprisingly, people with more money kept right on drinking the way they had before, apparently unmoved by increased expense.
Category: Public Policy
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?
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Is .05 the Sweet Spot?
…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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Harm Reduction x3
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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Who Controls Commercial Cannabis?
…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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A Spike in Drinking
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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Marketing Addiction
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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CDC Releases New Opioid Guidelines
…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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What About Safe Injection Sites?
They’ve been shown to reduce the likelihood of an overdose fatality, but also to reduce the risk of disease and disease transmission; increase access to needed services…and to some extent, reduce criminal conduct.
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Legal Drug Blues
More impressive results have come from simply increasing taxes on alcoholic beverages. States that have done so have been rewarded, mostly through reductions in the consequences of excessive drinking.
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The Senate Finally Has A Weed Bill
One reason to attempt to pass the bill now, as opposed to later, is that the GOP is expected to take over the majority at the beginning of next year.
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New CDC Guidelines, & Thoughts on the Opioid Epidemic
Purdue and the others may have settled their lawsuits, but the victims, and the professionals who treat them, will be paying the price for a long time to come.
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“You’re Too Drive to High”
I do know that there appears to be a clear link between legalization of recreational cannabis use in a state, and the rate of traffic accidents that occur in its aftermath.
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Better Living Thru Chemistry
I saw our country as a nation that had no clue what drug abuse and addiction were about, yet rushed ahead to ‘fix’ it and made exactly the sort of mistakes that people make when they’re desperate for a solution to a problem they never really understood in the first place.
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