Driver’s Ed
Of course, people who work in treatment know that there’s already solid base of regular users, millions of them, including daily smokers.
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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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Cruising With Cannabis
There’s not a lot of disagreement about the potential for cannabis intoxication to impair driving performance, though without an accepted standard and a reliable roadside test, it’s not of much value in a courtroom.
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When Shame Would Help
Clearly, these folks don’t experience shame in the way society expects. It’s why they arrive in treatment angry and defensive.
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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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Cannabis Consequences
One of the key ingredients for a drug epidemic is a false sense of confidence in the safety of drug use.
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Synergism Strikes
Then there are the users who seek to overcome their own elevated tolerance, which interferes with ordinary drug-taking, by simultaneously consuming a second substance of the same general effect
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Dayton Gets Results
We should remember that Ohio’s Republican governor had to go against the wishes of many in his own party in order to achieve this.
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Why Zero Tolerance Fails
…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.”
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Restorative Justice for Big Pharma?
I think most people understand the concept of making amends for past misdeeds.
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America’s Drug Epidemic History
But the repair isn’t cheap, and the outcomes require some patience. And that’s why efforts often fail. America gives up too early.
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The Drugs/Crime Axis
It helps to remember that when it comes to crime, drugs and alcohol play a dual role.
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Professionals and Addiction
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.
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