Topic: consequences

More likely the hope is to increase awareness of the risks, and encourage drinkers to limit consumption.

…as one judge told me at a conference: “no matter how many jails you build, judges will fill them. It’s the easiest way to make this someone else’s problem, instead of ours.”

It’s great for headlines but I hope we don’t dance too far down that particular garden path.

CDC gives cigarettes credit for more than 480,000 deaths a year, in the US alone.

I think most people understand the concept of making amends for past misdeeds.

It helps to remember that when it comes to crime, drugs and alcohol play a dual role.

Money is a tool that allows some to delay the inevitable. They construct a protective bubble that minimizes the risk of getting caught and the other consequences that follow addiction.

That’s why drug treatment may reduce crime, but doesn’t always eliminate it.

A criminal defense attorney complained to me that his clients didn’t begin to take things seriously until the second or even third offense.

Problems show up first in hospital emergency rooms and in jails. Those are the closest thing we have to an early warning system.