The Bigger Fish
I’d hate to think that one of the “benefits” from preserving those investigations was a chance for glory, free publicity and career advancement for the investigators.
The Gray Lady Reconsiders
More Americans now use marijuana daily than alcohol.
If you read crime fiction or watch cop shows on TV, you’re no doubt familiar with the so-called “bigger fish“ approach to shutting down a smuggling operation.
The idea is simple: Law enforcement permits smaller shipments of contraband–– booze, cigarettes, guns, and nowadays of course, drugs–– to slip through their defenses and reach the streets. By doing so, they hope to lure higher-level criminals and much larger shipments into the open, where the drugs can be seized in great quantities, and hopefully, the smuggling network shut down for good.
Law enforcement claims the strategy works— that they do in fact capture more illegal drugs (and more important smugglers) than if they had grabbed hold of every small shipment that passed.
I have no idea if that’s true. I do know that in an era of wildly potent synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, this approach has to increase the risk of additional fatalities, from drugs they could have prevented from reaching the...
The idea is simple: Law enforcement permits smaller shipments of contraband–– booze, cigarettes, guns, and nowadays of course, drugs–– to slip through their defenses and reach the streets. By doing so, they hope to lure higher-level criminals and much larger shipments into the open, where the drugs can be seized in great quantities, and hopefully, the smuggling network shut down for good.
Law enforcement claims the strategy works— that they do in fact capture more illegal drugs (and more important smugglers) than if they had grabbed hold of every small shipment that passed.
I have no idea if that’s true. I do know that in an era of wildly potent synthetic opioids such as fentanyl, this approach has to increase the risk of additional fatalities, from drugs they could have prevented from reaching the...
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Big Pot Meets Big Labor
This might be a good opportunity for a closer look at exactly how wealthy and established the industry has become
New Money or Not?
It turns out that the funds in question had previously been delayed, for months... now to be released late.
The Bigger Fish
I’d hate to think that one of the “benefits” from preserving those investigations was a chance for glory, free publicity and career advancement for the investigators.
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Split Over Kratom
...both the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security have “strong ties to a kratom lobbyist (and convicted criminal) behind a notorious kratom drinks company.”
Addicted to Exercise?
Like addicts deprived of their drug of choice, the compulsive exerciser may report a deep sense of loss, accompanied by symptoms such as sleeplessness, irritability, depression, anxiety.
Split Over Kratom
...both the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security have “strong ties to a kratom lobbyist (and convicted criminal) behind a notorious kratom drinks company.”
Life in a Hot Spot
Make it a continuing effort, using strategies based in evidence, and harnessing the power of human interaction-- instead of relying on a burst of anti-drug education, however intense.
The Storytellers
One young man explained that he avoided speaker meetings because the “drunkalogues” he heard triggered in him an awful craving for a drink.
Doubts about Diagnosis
It’s vulnerable to bias, both on the part of the patient and the practitioner.
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Rage-baited
From a counseling standpoint, it’s a time when we ought to be advising patients to restrict their social media activity, at the very least to selected forums and sites that support recovery goals
Rage-baited
From a counseling standpoint, it’s a time when we ought to be advising patients to restrict their social media activity, at the very least to selected forums and sites that support recovery goals
Parenting Under The Influence
Children raised in such families are more likely to be exposed to violence, to initiate their own substance use at an earlier age, and to have mental health problems in childhood.
Is This Recovery?
...there are other folks out there like these— pretending to sobriety yet still secretly using, and hoping to avoid the sort of trouble that haunted them in the past.
Officers in the House
...with law enforcement agencies taking on vastly different roles, planning and practicing our response appears more important than in the past.
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A Novel Approach
...the author, who grew up in and around the region, chose to use its earnings to found Higher Ground, a home for recovering women.
A Novel Approach
...the author, who grew up in and around the region, chose to use its earnings to found Higher Ground, a home for recovering women.
Diagnosing Cannabis Use Disorder: Updated
It certainly makes sense that if you suffer from a major mental illness, you should stay away from pot.
Video: Practical Advice on Prescription Painkiller Problems
People have abused opiates for 5,000 years. As much as medicine depends on them, they've always created problems for a percentage of users.
