A really good idea
Big Tobacco, however, will not agree. They'll put up the usual resistance, lobbying Congress, filing lawsuits, etc., and over the years, they've become quite good at it.
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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Arc of the Pendulum
Instead, our habit has been to rush head first in one direction, then reverse and rush back the opposite way
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Mean Green
At this point in the US, there are allegedly a couple of hundred thousand people who would reasonably qualify as ketamine-addicted.
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Another Country Tries Prohibition
…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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The Power of Drug Company Marketing
…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.
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The Oregon Trials
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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A Congressman’s Crusade
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.
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A State Considers Taxing Alcohol
One legislator worried that people who suffered from trauma and various social inequities needed alcohol as a form of self-medication.
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Hempire State
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.
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Politicians and the Fourth Wave
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.”
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Crossing the Border for Pot
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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A Revolutionary Plan
Not surprisingly, people with more money kept right on drinking the way they had before, apparently unmoved by increased expense.
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Jailing the Mentally Ill
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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